Wednesday, February 9, 2011
DataMarket
DataMarket lets you search for data. You can get graphs or just numbers, but it seems pretty cool.
Lottery Scratch-Offs
Turns out it's possible to beat the lottery scratch off tickets with a little bit of math.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Light Questions with Deep Answers
On a first date and you don't want to waste your time, but don't want to make it awkward by outright asking, "Are you expecting me to share my Gmail password with you?" It's cool, the dudes at OKCupid have figured out a way for you to get to the deep stuff with casual questions.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Universal Flu Vaccine
Sounds pretty awesome. A vaccine to prevent all strains of flu. Super-virus anyone?
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Income Inequality as Height
"Jan Pen, a Dutch economist who died last year, came up with a striking way to picture inequality. Imagine people’s height being proportional to their income, so that someone with an average income is of average height. Now imagine that the entire adult population of America is walking past you in a single hour, in ascending order of income.
The first passers-by, the owners of loss-making businesses, are invisible: their heads are below ground. Then come the jobless and the working poor, who are midgets. After half an hour the strollers are still only waist-high, since America’s median income is only half the mean. It takes nearly 45 minutes before normal-sized people appear. But then, in the final minutes, giants thunder by. With six minutes to go they are 12 feet tall. When the 400 highest earners walk by, right at the end, each is more than two miles tall."
It that didn't convince you that there is a problem, read the rest of the article.
The first passers-by, the owners of loss-making businesses, are invisible: their heads are below ground. Then come the jobless and the working poor, who are midgets. After half an hour the strollers are still only waist-high, since America’s median income is only half the mean. It takes nearly 45 minutes before normal-sized people appear. But then, in the final minutes, giants thunder by. With six minutes to go they are 12 feet tall. When the 400 highest earners walk by, right at the end, each is more than two miles tall."
It that didn't convince you that there is a problem, read the rest of the article.
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