Inkoativ charted income per day against population and animated the "mountains" that result for each continent. Click through to watch the developing world, well, develop. [via Data Is Beautiful]
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Jul 2, 2018
Animated "Income Mountains" for the world's continents, 1950-2015
Unemployment passes 30m with last week's 3.8m new filers
3.8m workers signed on for the first time last week, bringing America’s unemployed headcount to 30m. The number of new filers was down from 4.4m last week, a slow dropoff that suggests layoffs will continue at an unprecedented scale for weeks to come. Roughly 30.3 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the […]
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Raising money for a UBI fund that helps families affected COVID-19
I’m a huge fan of GiveDirectly, who does tremendous work with direct cash transfers for people in poverty — essentially, micro-scale experiments in Universal Basic Income, with long-term data impact studies. As they describe themselves: GiveDirectly is the first — and largest — nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world’s poorest. […]
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The retail TP shortage may be real and due to the shift in where we poop
I have, several times, heard the reasonable-sounding theory that America’s at work pooping minimized the need for THAT MUCH retail toilet paper. Purportedly there are tons and tons of business-grade TP piling up unused. What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage There’s another, entirely logical explanation for why stores have run out of […]
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The Kömforte Dual Zone Comforter wants to be that happy medium that makes both partners happy
The notion of two people sleeping in the same bed always inspires romantic visions of love and intimacy. However, most quickly realize that the romance of sleeping together is often quickly replaced by the realities of the act. One partner snores. The other talks in their sleep. One grinds their teeth. The other hogs the […]
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Get you ready for the Internet of Things with this training
Add Internet of Things to the shortlist of those actually benefiting from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. You might not realize it, but the organizing principle that is bringing more automation to the world is actually proving to be a major asset as human beings are forced to stay home and away from the […]
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The Ocushield is more than a screen protector it’s a blue light smashing medical device
We’ve all had those nights where we’re working on a laptop or scrolling through our phone before glancing at the time to find it’s actually a lot later than we thought. Most nights, you’d be fast asleep or at least dead tired at midnight or 1 or 3 a.m. But after staring at a screen, […]
