The folks over at the World Bank have a short video on the work of demographers and they calculate how many people live on Earth. If you’ve ever wondered ‘How can they calculate the number of people that have ever lived?’, watch the video.
(via World Bank Tumblr)
A mind-bending take on the Universe – it has No Edge and No Center.
(h/t broadsheet)
What if we condensed the world’s 7 billion people into a visual representation of 100 people? How would they be distributed according to gender, age, geography or religion? The folks over at Knowledge Visualization System have done just that, based on data from 100People.org.
One of the most startling and sober stats is that 1 out of 2 children would live in poverty.
(h/t World Bank)
A tapestry of footage melded together to tracing the origins of the universe and mankind.
Music: Our Story by MelodySheep
How much of the earth’s space would be taken up if the world’s population liked like the populations of Bangladesh, India, Uganda, China, Costa Rica, Nepal, France, United States, United Arab Emirates.
Data taken from the Global Footprint Network.
(via philiphagen.com)
Journalist Christoph Malin created this stunning time-lapse video of star trails (in the vein of the 1982’s “TRON” movie), with imagery captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
ISS Startrails – TRONized from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.
This Video was achieved by “stacking” image sequences provided by NASA from the Crew at International Space Station (see also fragileoasis.org/blog/2012/3/on-the-trails-of-stars/). These “stacks” create the Star Trails, but furthermore make interesting patterns visible.
Music: “Eileen” by Lee Rosevere add “Window #3” by Two Bicycles.
The history of Earth in a single 24-hour clock image…puts the experience of the human race on earth into context.
(via exp.lore.com)
A fantastic time-lapse video put together by photographer Knate Myers based on photographs taken from the International Space Station. Every photo was taken from the International Space Station. Wow!
View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.
Music by John Murphy – Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
(h/t mashable)
Randall Munroe’s “Lakes and Oceans” is another in his beautiful series of charts visualizing large complex things and putting them in proportion to objects we can understand (BTW that tower is the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world).
(via BoingBoing)
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