This map shows the US war on drugs has been a catastrophic failure and is ultimately unwinnable.
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Is America bvecoming depressed? A new study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics seems to suggest so.
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This map of Washington, D.C., which uses geolocated tweets, and the cell phone metadata attached to them, illustrates who in town is using iPhones (red dots) and who’s using Androids (green dots). iPhones are often more prominent in upper-income parts of cities (and central business districts), while Androids appear to be the dominant device in lower-income areas.
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This amazing video, shot two days ago on the streets of São Paulo by journalist and friend of Furthr Dom Phillips, captures why Brazil is ready to erupt.
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After a slight uptick, European unemployment is back to declining five full years after the recession began.
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They’re not all the same! To prove it here are the five worst and the five best of Damien Hirst’s 1,365 spot paintings. He painted 25 of them himself! The painting above is Lysergic Acid Diethylamide from 2000.
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Today Apple announce we’re about to get a new skinny font all over our phones.
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Using online crowd-sourcing website IndieGoGo, a handful of volunteers have raised almost double the funds they need to put this ad in the New York Times. It took them just a couple of days to raise almost $90,000.
The ad will go in the New York Times this Friday or Monday. The ad’s design was crowdsourced too.
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This last weekend saw the opening of M Night Shyamalan’s new movie After Earth, starring Will Smith. It made $27m. Which isn’t bad. But it was expected to make $40m and it cost $130m to make.
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