The New York Times has put together a nifty interactive timeline-map highlighting how many medals each country has won in every Summer Olympics since 1896. You can click on a year to see the medal counts from a given Olympiad by country, and view the results by geographic distribution (as above) or as a straight [...]
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interactive timeline/bubble-map of countries’ olympic performance
August 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: history · images · maps · neato · olympics · sport · stats
26% of u.s. teenage girls have at least one std
June 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
That number shoots up to 40 per cent among teens who actually admit to having had sex. I’m not sure how the rest of them contracted their diseases, but I’m guessing public toilet seats didn’t have much to do with it. And those figures don’t even reflect gonorrhea, warts, HIV/AIDS or other nasties that researchers [...]
Tags: aids · medicine · news · scary · stats · usa
bad boys get the girls, or the “shotgun approach to reproduction”
June 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Interested yet? Having cured cancer and solved world hunger, U.S. researchers have focused their skills and public research dollars on an age-old quandary: why is James Bond sexy? From the New Scientist: The traits are the self-obsession of narcissism; the impulsive, thrill-seeking and callous behaviour of psychopaths; and the deceitful and exploitative nature of Machiavellianism. [...]
Tags: nature · news · science · sex · stats
u.s. map with states replaced by countries that have similarly sized economies
May 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Wow, there’s just really no way to say that concisely, is there? I always said that when I finally put together my very own blog, I’d never apologize if I didn’t have a chance to post for a couple of days. Then again, I never expected that there would be hundreds of you to apologize [...]
