The Arctic Light

The Arctic Light from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

Passing Clouds

Hector Thunderstorm Project from Murray Fredericks http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifon Vimeo.

Futurology

Futurology is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. It seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what is likely to change..

20 Facts About U.S. Inequality

(From The Stanford Center for the Study of Poeverty and Inequality)

Ecological Footprint

"The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. An ecological footprint is a standard measurement of a unit’s influence on its habitat based on consumption and pollution.[1] It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste."
More maps are available at http://www.pthbb.org/natural/footprint/.

Bloom

"Welcome to ! Our mission to bring you a new type of visual discovery experience is already underway. We’re building a series of bite-sized applications that bring the richness of game interactions and the design values of motion graphics to the depth and breadth of social network activity, locative tools, and streaming media services. These new ‘visual instruments’ will help you explore your digital life more fluidly and see patterns and rhythms in the online services you care about
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Data visualization meets game design.

Fizz.
Cartagram.
Newsmap.
Geolocator.

Bloom is creating a new type of visual discovery experience on tablets, media consoles, and modern browsers that will provide you with playful, explorable, visually compelling views on personally relevant information from services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and iTunes.

These Bloom Instruments aren’t merely games or graphics. They're new ways of seeing what's important."

You can follow bloom on their blog.

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and The CTBTO

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996 but it has not yet entered into force. Their site contains information on all things nuclear worldwide, including this world map showing the status of signature and ratification of the act.

As events continue to unfold in Japan involving the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant (福島第一原子力発電所), information concerning the spread of the resultant fallout has begun to appear online, including animated maps showing trajectory of radioactive particles on a national, regional and international scale.





More information available at www.naturenews.com.