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The Financial Times has a new infographic online which shows the growth of Nuclear energy around the globe by existing reactors, reactors under contruction, and percentage of total power production.

Nuclear energy – which currently provides about 15 per cent of the world’s electricty – has undergone a revival of interest in the past few years, driven by concerns about energy security and climate change.

While worries about waste, the safety of plants and the potential use of enriched uranium for weapons remain paramount, governments around the world are planning to boost investment and build a host of reactors.

Our interactive graphic shows current and planned reactors as well as the proportion of individual countries’ energy demand covered by nuclear reactors.

via FT.com / Video & Audio / Interactive graphics – Nuclear energy revival.

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The Wall Street Journal has a new interactive infographic online showing the growing disparity between CEO’s and laborers, and the amount of taxes each pays.

Over the past 30 years, chief executives, Wall Street bankers and traders, law-firm partners and such amassed ever-greater incomes, while the incomes of factory workers, teachers, office managers and others in the middle grew much more slowly. In 2007, the top 1% of U.S. families accounted for 23.5% of all personal income in the U.S., according to economists .

via Income Gap Shrinks in Slump at the Expense of the Wealthy – WSJ.com.

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If you’re one of those people who hates the 5-color Homeland Security Alert code, then this post isn’t for you.  If you’re still reading, then you might want to check out “Red Orange Yellow Blue and Green”, a website chronicling all the changes in the alert status with sums (I hate seeing that “0 days of blue” at the bottom) and reasons why it changed.

RED ORANGE YELLOW BLUE AND GREEN.

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Nathan Yau of FlowingData has made an awesome discovery of some classic vintage information visualizaiton.

Someone needs to get me a paper copy of Willard Cope Brinton’s Graphic Presentation (1939), because it is awesome.

Brinton discusses various forms of graphic presentation in the 524-page book and what works and what doesn’t. There’s also some good stuff in there about how to make your graphs, charts, maps, etc (by hand).

It’s amazing that even though this book is 70 years old, many of the visualizations look very similar to stuff we make today.

Vintage Infographics From the 1930s | FlowingData.

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Our one and only September 11th memorial post for today comes from NASA, who has just released a high resolution image from a Satellite showing the aftermath of the attacks, visible from space.

ISS003-E-5387 — Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center. This photo was taken of metropolitan New York City (and other parts of New York as well as New Jersey) the morning of September 11, 2001. “Our prayers and thoughts go out to all the people there, and everywhere else,” said Station Commander Frank Culbertson of Expedition 3, after the terrorists’ attacks

via NASA – New York City on 9/11/01.

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In a humorous new video from Andy Samberg, he showcases his ignorance of CG movies through some hilarious misinformation about the technology and his motion-capture “super-suit”.

Good for a Friday laugh, but I have to wonder how many people really think this is close to how the stuff really works. “Script-writing supercomputers”.

See the video after the break.

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A new technology from Kateevas called “T Jet” uses inkjet printers and a micro-dryer to create Gen 8.5 substrates and larger (up to 6-feet a side) to create new larger OLED panels that would be required for those dreamy 50-inch screens.

With the T Jet technology OLED TVs could cost about 70 percent of what it would cost to build a standard LCD TV and even less than an LCD-LED TV, asserted Conor Madigan, a co-founder and the CEO. Such TVs would use a fraction of the power and contain half of the components.

via Bigger OLED-Tv panels coming soon thanks to Kateevas T Jet technology.

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The AP has a nice interactive infographic on Wildfires, showing past fires and the current wildfires being tracked.  It also has some interesting information on the creation and fighting of wildfires.

The Associated Press.

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AMD’s on a roll, now up with a powerful demonstration of the combined potential of their new GPU architecture and the OTOY remote gaming service.

While AMD gave a number of very impressive demos of their next-generation DirectX 11 part (detailed technical discussion to follow later this month), OTOY’s demo of Crysis running on an iPhone was probably the most profoundly intriguing use of AMD’s upcoming GPU that I saw all evening.

Ok, I know that 90 percent of you just did a double-take—Crysis, the standard gaming benchmark for high-end 3D hardware, running on a next-gen GPU on an iPhone? Let me explain.

Remote visualization services are very similar to this new generation of remote gaming services (Gaikai, OnLive, OTOY), and I   look forward to the cross-pollenation of data between them.  Getting my 2 Terabyte dataset back to my PC at 60fps remotely would be awesome.

via AMD’s next-gen GPU powers Crysis on an iPhone – Ars Technica.

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The Vodkaster blog has created a fun map in the “Metro Style” made popular by the Web Trends map that shows the best 250 movies, as listed by IMDB by users, sorted by the style of movie.

The top 250 best movies of all time Map | Vodkaster – Le Blog de la cinéphilie 2.0. via ChartPorn

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