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Info shots on the wall/ Infografica da parete

(EN) Inspired by the work of the french engineer Joseph Minard, a pioneer in the use of graphic in statistics and by the american professor Edward Tufte‘s ethos “clear and precise seeing becomes as one with clear and precise thinking“, the information artists of HistoryShots are building a precious catalougue of graphics that covers a wide range of topics. From the Race to the Moon to the Genealogy of Pop&Rock, their work can satisfy the taste of any graphic-info addict. You can explore they work on line or buy nice prints to put on your wall in front of a confy sofa… —– (IT) Ispirati dal lavoro dell’ingegnere francese Joseph Minard, pioniere nell’uso della grafica in statistica, e dell’ethos del professore americano Edward Tufte: “visioni chiare e precise diventano tutt’uno con un pensiero chiaro e preciso“, gli artisti dell’informazione di HistoryShots stanno costruendo un catalogo prezioso di mappe infografiche che coprono gli argomenti più vari. Dalla Corsa alla Luna, alla

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Olympic Medals on maps/Mappe di Medaglie Olimpiche

(EN) 29th Olympic Games started yesterday in China with a breathtaking ceremony seen by 4 billions people. If you are going to follow the games and are into medals, take a look at the interactive maps published on NYT: you can compare medals via geography and ranking. —————– (IT) La 29ma edizione dei Giochi Olimpici è iniziata ieri con una cerimonia che ha tolto il fiato a 4 miliardi di persone davanti ai teleschermi. Se vi interessano i giochi e la conta delle medaglie, il New York Times ha pubblicato due mappe interattive con cui comparare le medaglie vinte sulla base del paese e della quantità.

Is “friends with benefits” the future?/”Friends with benefits” è il futuro?

(EN) In Plato’s Symposium Aristophanes explains that humans were originally round, composed of two people joined together in a perfect sphere with four arms, four legs, and two faces. Only later, Zeus cleaved them in two to punish them for their arrogance and ambition…Love collects the halves of this original nature, and tries to make a single thing out of the two parts so as to restore our natural condition. This conception of love was taken up by medieval theologians, flourished even more in the Romanticism and arrives to 21st century. But there is a new configuration of relationships spreading among men and women of the generations born after the 70′. It’s called “Friends with benefits”: Two friends who have a sexual relationship without being emotionally involved. Typically two good friends who have casual sex without a monogomous relationship or any kind of commitment (urbandictionary). If you want to know more about it just take a look at this Benefit

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Which candidate has raised the most money?/Quale candidato ha raccolto più soldi?

(EN) Since the beginning of this year, the candidates to the White House are well known around the world. My favourite, Obama,  is the first major party presidential nominee to refuse general election public financing in the history of the program: he chose to raise his own funds instead of accepting $84 million of taxpayer money. Obama grassroots fundraising campaign is also the first one to rely primarily on the Internet to collect small donations from numerous contributors and, doing so, relying on a new kind of politics, one that does not favor the wealthy and powerful (see infographic above). As the GOOD video of this post points out, this is the first USA presidential election that will cross the billion-dollar mark. ———– ———– (IT) Dall’inizio di quest’anno i candidati alle presidenziali americane sono ben conosciuti in tutto il mondo. Barack Obama, il mio favorito, è il primo ad aver rifiutato il finanziamento pubblico nella storia del programma: ha infatti

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