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Explain the world with maps

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After Gapminder (back in 2006), I've just found UUworld, a free tool for Mac (Pro costs $49):

UUorld (pronounced "world") provides an immersive mapping environment, high-quality data, and critical analysis tools. Great explanations are unfortunately scarce, but UUorld makes them easier to achieve through interactive four-dimensional maps

Very interesting for social, geographic and demographic studies.

Academic earth

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Warning, clicking on the following link could warn your productivity for the next days: Academic Earth has thousands of video lectures from world's top scholars, covering several topics such as Economics,Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Mathematics and much more.

For all out there who like to learn, beware, you can become addicted to it.

Karl Marx dixit

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In Das Kapital Karl Marx writes:"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."

This was written in 1867. I'm not a communist (on the contrary) but this sentence makes me think.

Social Media in 2009

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It's one of those articles you must read. Via Twitter.

Baby connectus

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It’s now official: I need Youtube to feed my son.