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Ira Glass talks taste and not quitting

April 9, 2012, by happykatie in Smart, Video, Visualization

I love being inspired by my heroes – Ira Glass is just one in a million. I think you’ll enjoy what he has to say. As usual.

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‘Immapancy’ defined and the true size of our understanding of Africa

November 12, 2011, by happykatie in Current Affairs, Non Profit, Smart, Visualization

I love this phrase ‘immapancy’ (insufficient geographic knowledge). Well, I don’t love it – I just like having the pseudo-word as it describes our collective geographic skills to a ‘T’. And sounds less scary than ‘geographic illiterate’. (click the image to see full size) Americans are particularly bad on this front; myself included, depending [...]

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What the fr*ck is going on – video + visualization = awesome

May 12, 2011, by happykatie in Current Affairs, Video, Visualization

You know me and my love of visualizations, here's a great music video discussing the need for improved hydrolic fracturing (aka: fracking) legislations. Catchy, pretty, funny, spot on. What the frack IS going on? Aaaannndddd…. here's a much less funny video:

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