Sunday February 05 , 2012

Posts Tagged ‘Wide Angle’

Graphic: Marrying out

Graphic of racial and ethnic intermarriages.

 

"Coywolves" Are New Beasts in the East

Adult eastern coyotes, like this one snapped by a camera trap in upstate New York, weigh 32 to 44 pounds. Photo: New York State Museum, Albany Hiking in a Nova Scotia park last fall, a young woman was killed by…

 

It’s an El Niño year – good for Phoenix, bad for…

El Niño: When surface waters of the equatorial Pacific turn warmer than normal in summer, climatologists would expect an El Niño year, then forecast when and where droughts, floods, and hurricanes might occur. Bad for some, but good for those of us who live in the desert. We’ve been living through a number of drought years.

 

The Cost of Care

Click to enlarge graphic. The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack of health insurance is a factor in…

 

Sign Language

The perfect sign would have no words and be easy to grasp. “The rational thing is to create standard symbols everybody understands,” says David Gibson, author of The Wayfinding Handbook. He’s one of many designers the world over who work…

 

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Journalist-turned Internet technologist, data cruncher, researcher and communications strategist. I also teach these topics at Arizona State University. I enjoy SCUBA diving, mountain biking, hiking and road trips. Always up for a good cup of coffee. 2006 TIME Person of the Year.

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