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Education
College Is Only Good for Helping Rich People Get Richer
College: where already advantaged youths spend four years enjoying themselves and then receive considerable rewards for having done almost nothing.
News
Most Bike Accidents Apparently Bikers' Fault in San Francisco
The Bay Citizen has sifted through every single police report for bicycle accidents over the last two years and assembled a fascinating array of data.
News
Infographic: Americans Get Out the Door Late
What time do Americans go to work?
Education
Winner: 'Redesign the Report Card' Project
We challenged you to design a visually appealing report card that informs, inspires, and gives context to student achievement. Here's the winner.
Education
Results at Arne Duncan's First Chicago Turnaround School Raise Efficacy and Legal Questions
Arne Duncan believes in "turnaround" schools, but are they effective, and are they legal?
Business
Crowded Airspace: We're Running Out of Wireless
In just two years, there won't be enough wireless to go around.
Culture
Chart: What America Is the Worst At
A new data visualization called "American Shame" highlights the number of things at which America is literally the worst of the worst.
Lifestyle
Can the World Feed 10 Billion People?
Our kids will be living with 10 billion in 2100. Will they be eating anything?
Education
What's the Worth of a Kindergarten Teacher?
$320,000, according to this morning's New York Times. The rationale being that kids who learn more when they're young not only go on to make...
Culture
Impressive Video: What Egypt's Twitter Hashtag Network Looked Like
An interesting visualization of the tweets surrounding the Egyptian revolution shows what a tangled web microblogging weaves.
Education
Should Students Be Able to Grade Their Teachers?
A new policy in Memphis will take student reports into consideration when evaluating a teacher. But can kids recognize a good one?
Education
Irish Students Design Software to Make Drivers Safer
More than 3,000 people die every day because of traffic accidents, and that number is on the rise. The problem's so bad that the World Health...
Technology
Daytum: An App to Help You Track Your Life's Statistics
Now you can obsessively record how many books you read, or how many photos you take, just like Nicholas Felton!
Lifestyle
Infographic: A Century of Meat Consumption
A 100 years' worth of data reveals a beef decline and a chicken boom, and also raises the great egg debate—are they meat or not?
Environment
The Dirty Energy Powering Your Web-Based Life
A new Greenpeace report show just how much energy it takes to run our internet lives.
Lifestyle
The Sneaky Math That Undermines Calorie Counting
How large numbers can trick us into thinking they represent large quantities of food—and what that means for mandatory calorie counts.
Culture
But Who Is Google's Person of the Year?
Time got its say on the man of the hour, but whom the world is actually talking about is quite a bit different.
Culture
Stone-Cold Drunk
New 2009 data shows that the "drunkest" cities in America are also some of the coldest—though drinking still doesn't warm you up.
