This map shows public expenditure in a given financial year on military as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP).
via chartsbin.com(click here to see an interactive graphics)
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A snapshot of Earth's plant productivity shows regions of increased productivity (green) and decreased productivity (red). Tracking productivity between 2000 and 2009, researchers found a global net decrease due to regional drought.
via svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
Explore Australia's 150 electorates. Click an electorate to display detailed results and an electorate guide the map.
via www.abc.net.au(click here for an interactive graphics)
If you live in the United States, you're likely aware that there are a handful of regional accents across that great country of yours, many of which are immediately recognizable before even three words are strung together.
We've found a map that details the boundaries of each of the major regional American dialects.Where do you fit in?via www.seattlepi.com
More than 1 Million people used our Themeleon tool to design their Twitter Profile in the past 3 months, which allows us to paint a picture of the world connecting colors to locations and profile data. What colourlovers.com noticed first was that a huge majority of people don't wander that far off from Twitter's default light blue colors... and then theye went digging deeper.
They took the colors from 100,000 profiles designed with Themeleon and geolocated them to the designers location. Although it is a little dark in this compressed video... Each location has a spectrum strip of colors... the more colors from a certain area, the taller the strip. (The US is well defined, Europe and East Asia... although you can see some outlines of other countries too.)via static.colourlovers.com
The Infographic above gives a breakdown of Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) salaries by state and is color coded with the darkest green states having the highest CNA salary available.
via www.bestcnatrainingschools.com
Map from the 2009 Human Development Report, which uses HDI, the Human Development Index, as a measure of the general level of development for jurisdictions on both sides of the US-Mexico borderWhat is interesting is that the lowest [Human Development Index (HDI)] county on the US side (Starr County Texas) is higher than the highest HDI municipality in Mexico (i.e., Mexicali). via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com map from the 2009 Human Development Report.
Education is a costly part of any country's expenses. Here's a look at just how much each country values education.
via www.realonlinedegrees.com