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Quoted: TED Talks Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.

Wow, that is a great talk.

You know, every TED talk I have seen has been fantastic.

Quoted: TED Talks You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

Google flu trends.

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

Quoted: A"second generation" of DNA tests are allowing genes to "testify" in ways never before possible, in some cases resolving long-standing legal tangles but in others raising new ones.

Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired

Quoted: A survey of the workers confirmed what the plant’s nurses had suspected: those who got sick were employed at or near the “head table,” where workers cut the meat off severed hog heads.

On Nov. 28, Dr. DeVries’s boss, Dr. Ruth Lynfield, the state epidemiologist, toured the plant. She and the owner, Kelly Wadding, paid special attention to the head table. Dr. Lynfield became transfixed by one procedure in particular, called “blowing brains.”

Interesting article on meat eating.

Quoted: Got vegetables? The days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may be on the way out.

Quoted: A no-nonsense look at the often nonsensical world of fitness clubs.