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The Numbers Behind the Academy Awards
March 10th 2010 01:39
This infographic will tell you every statistic you need to know about the Oscars. How much does it cost to produce a statuette? What effect does winning an Academy Award have on your career? How many Oscars are handed out each year? What will it cost you to put a film up for Oscar consideration? What is the average age of Oscar winners and what is the shortest film ever to win Best Picture?
The answers to all these questions and more is below!
If the info-graphic is cut off click on the image to visit the source.
Source: Business Pundit
The answers to all these questions and more is below!
If the info-graphic is cut off click on the image to visit the source.
Source: Business Pundit
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The Facts About Smoking
March 8th 2010 01:19
From 1965 to 2006, rates of smoking in the United States have declined from 42% to 20.8%. A significant majority of those who quit were professional, affluent men. Despite this decrease in the prevalence of consumption, the average number of cigarettes consumed per person per day increased from 22 in 1954 to 30 in 1978. This paradoxical event suggests that those who quit smoked less, while those who continued to smoke moved to smoke more light cigarettes. This trend has been paralleled by many industrialized nations as rates have either levelled-off or declined. In the developing world, however, tobacco consumption continues to rise at 3.4% in 2002. In Africa, smoking is in most areas considered to be modern, and many of the strong adverse opinions that prevail in the West receive much less attention. Today Russia leads as the top consumer of tobacco followed by Indonesia, Laos, Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Jordan, and China.
The info-graphic below lays out the raw facts about smoking including the statistics on how it affects your health, how easy it is to quit, what does smoking cost the economy, how much revenue governments raise from smokers and how much of that do they spend on anti-tobacco campaigns.
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Via: Online Schools
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Smoking.
The info-graphic below lays out the raw facts about smoking including the statistics on how it affects your health, how easy it is to quit, what does smoking cost the economy, how much revenue governments raise from smokers and how much of that do they spend on anti-tobacco campaigns.
If the info-graphic is cut off click on the image to visit the source.
Via: Online Schools
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article for Smoking.
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Mountain Goats
March 5th 2010 03:12
Mountain Goats generally reside in alpine areas above the tree line. They are the largest mammals living in this region, but avoid predators by resting on rocky cliffs.
Mountain Goats are sure footed climbers, so much so their daily exploits seem impossible or at the very least crazy to human observers.
The images below sourced from bannedinhollywood.com give an insight into the climbing abilities of Mountain Goats. See the full photoset which includes other goat varieties here.
Mountain Goats are sure footed climbers, so much so their daily exploits seem impossible or at the very least crazy to human observers.
The images below sourced from bannedinhollywood.com give an insight into the climbing abilities of Mountain Goats. See the full photoset which includes other goat varieties here.
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Comments (1) Time Lapse Snow Fall
March 3rd 2010 02:58
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Valentine's Day By The Numbers
March 1st 2010 02:24
The origins of Valentine's day probably date back to 270 A.D. when St Valentine was executed for secretly marrying couples. It has become the day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting various gifts.
Valentine's Day has also become a very sweet day for retailers across the globe with massive profits made on flowers, cards, chocolate, teddy bears and many other items
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Read More Slow Motion Lightning
February 26th 2010 01:51
Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. In the atmospheric electrical discharge, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 60,000 m/s (130,000 mph), and can reach temperatures approaching 30,000 °C (54,000 °F), hot enough to fuse silica sand into glass channels known as fulgurites which are normally hollow and can extend some distance into the ground. There are some 16 million lightning storms in the world every year.
Sourced from imgbit.com, below is a slow motion gif of a lightning strike[ Click here to read more ]
Sourced from imgbit.com, below is a slow motion gif of a lightning strike
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What Are We WIlling To Sacrifice For Clean Energy?
February 24th 2010 01:38
The Belo Monte Dam is a hydroelectric dam to be built on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil. The planned installed capacity of the dam will be 11,000 MW (enough power for over 23 million homes), which would make it the second-largest hydroelectric dam in Brazil, and the third-largest in the world. The dam is expected to cost $3 billion and the transmission lines $2.5 billion.
The project is criticized by environmental organisations as it will flood 400 square kilometres of agricultural lands and forest and will directly impact the Paquiçamba reserve of the Juruna indigenous people. It was also said that to be feasible, the Belo Monte dam needs other dams upstream to guarantee a year-round flow of water. This means that more forest will be flooded[ Click here to read more ]
The project is criticized by environmental organisations as it will flood 400 square kilometres of agricultural lands and forest and will directly impact the Paquiçamba reserve of the Juruna indigenous people. It was also said that to be feasible, the Belo Monte dam needs other dams upstream to guarantee a year-round flow of water. This means that more forest will be flooded
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Architectural Photography
February 22nd 2010 01:09
What is Architectural Photography? In a broad sense it involves photographing the exteriors and interiors of domestic, commercial, religious, institutional, engineering or any other structures.
Like all photography the master practitioners capture and amaze us with their brilliance, imagination and creativity[ Click here to read more ]
Like all photography the master practitioners capture and amaze us with their brilliance, imagination and creativity
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Ford Super Chief Pickup
February 19th 2010 02:20
The Ford F-250 Super Chief (often known as just the Ford Super Chief) was a concept car that was created by the Ford Motor Company .It may show what the future holds for pickup trucks.
The Super Chief uses a V10 Tri-Flex engine that has supercharged aspiration and induction. In total there are twenty valves in the engine (two valves for every cylinder). The Super Chief's engine is hydrogen-powered. It can also run on gasoline and ethanol[ Click here to read more ]
The Super Chief uses a V10 Tri-Flex engine that has supercharged aspiration and induction. In total there are twenty valves in the engine (two valves for every cylinder). The Super Chief's engine is hydrogen-powered. It can also run on gasoline and ethanol
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