Is Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Really The Largest Tax Hike In The History Of The World?

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Graphic: Taking stock of the world’s nuclear missiles

This week, China urged Russia and the United States to slash their nuclear arms. Top Chinese official Cheng Jingye told a meeting in Vienna, “As countries with [the] largest nuclear arsenals, the U.S. and Russia should continue to make drastic reductions in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable and irreversible manner.”

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Anyone But Romney: The race by the Republican right to find an ‘ABR’ continues

Contenders to Mitt Romney in the republican presidential race have emerged and then faded – support for the former Massachusetts governor one of the few constants in the nomination race.

Despite Mr. Romney’s inconstantly high poll rankings, the GOP can’t seem to fully embrace him. The National Post’s graphics team takes a look at the ups and downs of the race so far.

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Which companies employees are giving the most money to political campaigns and which candidates are getting the bulk of it.

Find out on our Elections 2012 page under “Company Cash”

World Map of Useless Stereotypes by Christoph Niemann (via danah boyd)

covestor:

Here’s an amazing new graphic from National Geographic that maps income levels on top of world population densities. In a glance you can see where humans live on earth and at what wealth level. Click through for the full thing, plus more demographic information (on pages 2-4) broken down by income level: (via Where and on how much money the world lives ‐ Covestor)

sunfoundation:

How the World Uses Social Networks

Social networks in every country might live on the same Internet, but that doesn’t prevent differences in online customs and culture from developing along geographic borders.

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Infographically Illustrating the Scarcity of Natural Gas Reserves in the World - information aesthetics

The Natural Gas infographic illustrates various factual statistics about the scarcity of this natural resource, and includes a view on how many cubic meters or years that are left before the availability of gas will run out, an overview of the top 7 countries with reserves, yearly producers and biggest consumers, and contrasts the availability of natural gas against that of oil and coal.

(via journo-geekery)

The new startup ecosystem. (Click here to embiggen, via GigaOm)