The flash application referenced below displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Each time a country emits more than 1000 tonnes of CO2, the country’s map blinks in red. CO2 emissions, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time

The New York Times provides this amazing yet simple application, where it is possible to give your state of mind in one word. I took a snapshot at 4PM ET. Mc Cain supporters feels : ELECTION DAY 08 – What One Word Describes Your Current State of Mind? – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com via kwout [...]

This web page is an amazing tutorial for application of Bayes’ theorem. One of the problem resolved by this theorem is: 1% of women at age forty who participate in routine screening have breast cancer. 80% of women with breast cancer will get positive mammographies. 9.6% of women without breast cancer will also get positive [...]

In the small film below, Jerry Andress Shows a few amazing optical illusions. We can call this perception failure: "The wonderful brain interprets something different as it actually is but it doesn’t mean that it made a mistake. It took the information that it had and did it’s best job" Learn Magic Tricks at 5min.com [...]

I recently read a book that reviews the basic notions of probability. And this book also describes the "Gambling of the Chevalier De Mere": Solving this problem, Blaise Pascal produced the basic laws of probability. Historically recorded is the fait of a swinging Flemish renaissance gentleman, the Chevalier de Mere. Around 1650, he suffered severe [...]

I just reproduced an extract below, but the full earth picture is available at Incredimazing. This picture shows: City lights Natural gas flares Wildfires Fishing fleet lights This picture is based on: Nasa’s Visible Earth map, 2001: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ Lights data source: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, 1994-1995: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/maps.html Earth at Night | Incredimazing via kwout Technorati [...]

This page presents a summary of west philosophers: From Plato to Jean-Paul Sartre. The page heading say it all: Powered by ScribeFire.

Hans Rosling is a genius of statistics. He knows how to bring out insights from boring statistics. The following video show one of his presentation at TED: In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his [...]

Nowadays we check weather forecast on TV, on the Internet or even using a WII. But if we were alone in an island, the tips described in this wikihow article would be useful. Found via haha.

In the TED presentation below, Dr Dean Ornish provides some insight about the rise of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases accros the globe.