Using the new Google Public Data Explorer, I created a graph comparing life expectancy, GDP and population. The concept was inspired by this TED Talk featuring Hans Rosling, which features his Gapminder software.
Click this link to view and adjust the graph within Google Public Data Explorer.
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In memory of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, here are some pictures LeAnn and I took while on our honeymoon last summer.
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This Thanksgiving marks the 40th anniversary of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island. Here is a great PBS web site about the event (via MetaFilter). Below is a photo I took last Spring of the “Indians Welcome” sign that is still visible.
Sign from the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Here a picture of the penitentiary while approaching by boat.
Photo from our Spring trip to Alcatraz
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