Pinboard: bookmarks for fakeisthenewreal tagged 'world'

Dedicated to achieving Bucky Fuller's goal of a worldwide power grid. "Research shows that the premier global strategy is the interconnection of electric power networks between regions and continents into a global energy grid, with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources — a world wide web of electricity."

energy world institute
august 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view.

rediscovered. excellent international data and visualizations.

world archive visualization graph development
february 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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GeoCommons - Visual Analytics through Maps

sharing geodata in SHP, KML and CSV. excellent

via:christiammarcschmidt gis world archive
january 2009 by fakeisthenewreal

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Lists of tropical cyclone names - Wikipedia
everything_has_a_name weather wikipedia world ocean
september 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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Global Rich List

Fun tool to put your first world wealth in perspective. Also, amazing tiled ¥€$ gif background

money economics world dirtstyle
september 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Architects aren't ready for an urbanized planet [International Herald Tribune]
architecture world future
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Burgeoning cities face catastrophe, says UN | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

urban pops to double in next 25 years.

urban planning demography history->demography world future
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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c o n c e p t u a l d e v I c e s - e n g

'Camouflage' population-scaled flag rugs, 3D PVC pipe histograms, UV-fluorescent wall, other good stuff. "Antonio Scarponi develops interdisciplinary research projects using cognitive tools and practices from architecture and design."

italy art visualization architecture world mapping
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale | The Register

US Military running world simulations. Of smaller, country-level sims: "US Army using SEAS to identify potential recruits."

sim military military-industrial viatrmd usa war world news history->demography
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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:: urban squares - list of all the squares ::

"research initiative about language of the city–town–urban squares as a nucleus and a hearth of any neighborhood."

urban design architecture space world archive
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Deal struck' at UN climate talks

"Climate scientists: only [keeping GHG conc.] below ~450ppm can prevent major climatic consequences. IPCC draft says keeping [them] at this level could cost <=3% of GDP. ... 'Probability for achieving 450ppm in ... the world as it now: almost impossible'"

climate energy news world ecology
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Benjamin Edwards: The World of Wal-Mart

World map of 'countries of origin for clothes in Wal-Mart stores.' visual ref: Boetti's quilt-flag-map

scale hidden_patterns map world capitalism viakanarinka
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Economist.com - Cities Guide

old nugget, steadily expanding

world urban archive
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Rem Koolhaas - Dilemmas in the evolution of the city

On the ¥€$ regime, resort cities and etc.

urban architecture world viaonyone
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Killer Asteroid? Bomb It. Or Paint It. - The Basics - Henry Fountain - New York Times

dealing with death from (far) above

tk space world news
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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MaxMind - Average Latitude and Longitude for Countries

source: CIA World Factbook, of course.

geography world mapping international
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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CO2 output from shipping twice as much as airlines | The Guardian

~18m containers making ~200m trips on 70k ships use ~300m tonnes fuel and generate 600-800m tonnes of CO2, 5% of global total. [if each container doesn't generate $74K each year, we're not getting our environmental degredation's worth]

environment boat transport world
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The World as Flatland

simple horiz lists of countries by a few different factors. Not comprehensive enough in any dimension. In the 'all white' school of design.

design world visualization
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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World Gazetteer: download

"The downloadable file contains a list of all towns, administrative divisions and agglomerations with their current population, their English name (if not equal to the international name) and parent country." 12 MB unzipped

population world geography archive via:ian.crowther
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Long Bets [ Welcome ]

long term betting on 'things that matter' from Long Now, great. Bets that were decided two years ago are shown alongside bets to be decided - does the long now go into the past?

future economics world technology time
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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California Split - New York Times

claims power at edges (eg CA) --> decentrlzn, whilst large nation leads to tyranny of central elites (?). PS You forgot China, only 23 net new breakaway states since '46 if you discount decolonialzn, count Yemen & Ger reunifctn (& 15 a

stupid news world politics geography california future
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Countries of the World - 18 years of CIA World Fact Books

Archived world fact book

archive international world statistics
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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HABER & BOSCH - Haber-Bosch process

"1% of the world's energy supply is used for it, it sustains roughly 40% of the population. Billions of people would not even exist without it."

chemistry world food energy ecology
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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BP Global - Reports and publications - Statistical Review of World Energy 2006

Thanks for all that energy, BP!

energy world archive oil
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The New York Review of Books: Manifest Destiny: A New Direction for America

"USA ... promote[d] globalization, whatever its benefits, ha[s] been the most powerful force of political, economic, social, & cultural destabilization ... since WWII; [it] resembles the '... everlasting uncertainty and agitation' forecast by Marx+Engels"

policy world usa future capitalism
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Urban Age | Welcome

(now ended) series of conferences w/ (good) ancillary material

urban world via:leahb
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Terra nullius - Wikipedia

no-man's land (or no-European's land, more strictly). Still, useful concept.

law history world wikipedia
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision Population Database

world=city, with a 200 pt equals sign.

urban statistics population rural world
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Third Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

Protect culture || embalm culture (via tmonkey)

culture world the_sadness the_everyday music dance bureaucracy viatmonkey
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Open Planning Project: Welcome
planning urban world software
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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UK Defra | e-Digest Environment Statistics, Global Atmosphere

Comprehensive greenhouse gas stats & figures from the UK. far better than the US Energy Information Agency site

uk statistics environment world
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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IEA Press Releases - nergy technology scenarios and strategies for a more secure and sustainable energy future

"sustainable energy future is possible - can return soaring energy-related CO2 emissions to today’s levels by 2050 and halve the expected growth in both oil and electricity demand" not good enough, technocrats.

energy environment world
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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List of world's fairs - Wikipedia
architecture spectacle world culture history wikipedia urban
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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International Networks Archive \\ Remapping Our World

Presenting good info on global trends (water, tobacco, arms trade). From Princeton. Too bad the design of the infographics is pretty bad!

design mapping world geography graph
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

various projections for global carbon intensity of energy use. beautiful chart

graph energy world
july 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Nuclear Capable Nations

Newly updated with 1999 data! Now with 68 countries

nuclear fitnr map granfalloon world
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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THE POLITICAL EQUATOR

Along this imaginary border encircling the globe lie some of the world’s most contested thresholds: the US/México border, the Strait of Gibraltar, the IsraeliPalestine border, Kashmir, etc

map world economics
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!
census geography map world reference archive
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles

Like the CIA World Factbook, but with longer narratives on history, economy & foreign relations (but inferior maps). Omits the UK [bc it's the Foreign Ofc?].

uk reference archive world
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Nuclear Research Reactors in the World
nuclear archive world
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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The New York Times > Graphic: Small and at Risk: Oil Producers to Watch

Iraq is *potentially* unstable?

oil map world
april 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen - The MIT Press
book world economics
april 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Why We're All Jesus' Children [Slate]

"Go back 120 generations (~1000 BCE). Your ancestors include everyone in the world who has descendants living today." (est world pop in 1000BCE = 50m)

population genealogy world history race
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Disputes - international

social networking, nation-state style. via idlewords // inexplicably doesn't mention that China claims Taiwan & vice versa.

archive monopoly_on_violence world war fictional_states viaidlewords
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Early World Cities:Extending the census to the fourth millenium
world history urban
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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GaWC - The World According to GaWC

"This map illustrates the new metageography which GaWC is all about" world cities sorted by geography, classed by imporance.

map economics world
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Ship locations

live ship locations in world.
This is me setting up a scrape of this image.

map world transport hidden_patterns the_everyday gps
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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City Population

many world population statistics

world census mapping population archive ug_chart
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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recreation of a wall-sized map found in a church in avalon, california.

countries marked in red...

map world politics
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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World66 - visited countries

17 countries - 7%

map world a_gray_veil
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Yes Men

identity correction

activism politics world song_of_the_corporates
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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www.worldgame.org

A direct descendant of R. Buckminster Fuller’s famous World Game, the Global Simulation Workshop is a 3-hour interactive game that builds critical skills and teaches its participants about global issues.

sim world
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - UT Library Online

great collection of maps of world/history/etc

world history map
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Degree Confluence Project

he goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here.

world geography photography
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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subway map, itinerary, route finder ( Paris, London, Moscow, Los Angeles ) underground

take a ride on the world's subways

world subway
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Global Stocks of Nuclear Explosive Materials

thx 18brumaire!

nuclear world politics capable
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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