Comparison of the cost of Opening Ceremony ticket prices at major sporting events
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okcupid.com run a massive dating site and therefore have unparalleled insight into sex and relationships. Here's what they've found, in numbers and charts. via blog.okcupid.com
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Over the past week, the Nobel prizes have been awarded in chemistry, medicine, peace, physics and literature.
Over the intervening 109 years, more than 500 prizes have been awarded. But which nation can claim the most winners? BBC have trawled throught the archives to produce a definitive list of the nations with the biggest brains.
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Utilising cutting edge techniques and taking advantage of market-leading expertise, Digital Life offers both a lens on the digital world and the frameworks required to make actionable business decisions within it. It can be used to drive global strategies or inform local tactics.The interactive data dashboard allows users to compare pairs of countries with each other, in attributes such as Internet penetration, digital lifestyles and daily activities, etc.via discoverdigitallife.com
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The true size of Africa.
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Google’s Chrome web browser has only been around for two years, but with an almost frantic pace of development it’s already gone through more iterations in that brief time than many other software products do in a decade. Chrome is now up to version 6, and has a rapidly increasing share of the web browser market. It’s now in third place after Firefox and Internet Explorer. via royal.pingdom.com
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Big Apple Ed is your comprehensive guide to NYC schools web application created in Ruby on Rails by Balance Coop and J. Soma. The aim is simple, to provide parents, teachers, students, and all other interested parties with an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand guide to the vast amounts of information available about New York City public schools.
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Hollywood and Silicon Valley (spiritual home of the US film and tech industries, respectively) have long been an influence on one another. Sci-fi films like Star Wars and Back to the Future have provided the inspiration for scientists who are now developing warp drives and self-tying shoelaces. And the tech industries has made many 'unfilmable' concepts - like Avatar, which James Cameron first dreamed up in 1994 - not only possible, but hugely popular
These two industries clearly make good bedfellows, but are they truly equals? Well, let's start by looking at some numbers...
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Enormous amounts of email circulate the Internet every day, there can be no doubt about that. But how does the amount of email compare with that of traditional mail, also known as “snail mail”?
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Many states are facing huge debts, so Congress passed a $26-billion dollar stimulus bill to help those states out. Here's a look at each state and the debt it's facing.
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