Is income inequality making communities unhealthy? This week’s Post of the Week says, well, yes. In Inequality Makes Me Sick (Literally), Andrew Price points to an interview with epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, who studied the correlation between a social problems and income distribution, for the answer.
Wilkinson found that social issues... 
Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac? Part of the reason is that a huge proportion of our food subsidies go to meat while only 0.37 percent go to fruits and vegetables. That makes meat and dairy artificially cheap, so we end up consuming more of it than we should, and getting fatter. 
This video (below the jump) investigates why one in seven people is malnourished, how food dependency affects the poor, and how we can make sure we've all got enough to eat in the resource-strapped future. It's pretty comprehensive.
It's interesting that comparative advantage—that awesome win-win arrangement you learned about in... 
Inspired by the Apps for Healthy Kids competition, part of the First Lady's Let's Move campaign, we teamed up with the White House Blog yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, and we asked our friends: What healthy kid app would you design? We ask a question to our Twitter and Facebook faithful once a day, so if you’re not yet following @GOOD or a... 
Next Generation Healthcare has an interesting graphic showing how many deaths there are from road traffic accidents in different parts of the world. The takeaway: Cars are dangerous, especially in developing counties. You can see the full version here.
I'm confused about a few things though. First, on that big map, what's the time period... 
Yesterday, the Washington, D.C. Superior Court started issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples, joining Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The Washington Post has a nice slideshow of a few of the ceremonies. Man, the collapse of civilization involves way more smiling and hugging than you'd think.
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What if the systems of the human body were depicted as a subway map? It would look something like this amazing map by Sam Loman. Insert your own Rectum Station joke here
See also: The Universe as Subway Map; The Interstate Highways as Subway Map.
Via Information Aesthetics.
Over at Carfree.us, a self-described "average Joe" is trying to wean himself off his car where possible. After two months, he attempts this quantitative estimate of the payoff:
In January and February I commuted by bicycle or bus a total of 36 days or 72 trips, not counting holidays and vacation days. Of those 72 trips I took the bus 32... 
It's another fun map. This one shows, in red, the parts of the country where bars outnumber grocery stores. And that's in the Midwest. Here's the funny thing, though: This doesn't really correspond to where people drink the most.
Via Eyeteeth. 
