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A graphic about meals served to students and prisoners.  Sources are from a government sources and well reputed magazines.

Nuclear Explosions since 1945

anyqs It is interesting to note the relationship between the locations of the nuclear explosions and the population densities around those regions. Furthermore, it seems that there is also a relationship between the frequency of nuclear detonations and how long ago they were detonated (i.e. there were several nuclear detonations 50 years ago, but just 2 in the last 10 years). Lastly, it is interesting to see that the UK and France conducted the majority of their nuclear explosions in their colonies during the 1960s and 1970s, away from their population.

An infographic looking at various nutrition and health factors in Guiness as opposed to other beer brands, coupled with general consumption statistics.

Guiness Vs. Beer

Years left if the world consumes at today's rate vs. years left if the world consumes at the half the US consumption rate.

Worldwide locations and sales of Starbucks and McDonalds

anyqs Is the growth of Starbucks in multiple countries similar to what McDonald's growth was earlier? If so, how closely do the growths match, and can we expect Starbucks to eventually be as ubiquitous as McDonalds?

anyqs The size of each bubble is confusing. The size of the ones for McDonald's and Starbuck's are very similar, but if looked at closely, are actually different. This leads to questions about the relative presence of each corporation in each region. Also the range that is covered by the McDonald's circles are greater than that of Starbuck's. I know that this visualization is just to show the relativity in size between the two companies, but the information given is hard to translate. My question is, did they make the circles similar on purpose to show the similarities between the spread of the companies, or was it just because the overall range of Starbuck's presence was smaller than McDonald's?

For decades, the World Database of Happiness has tracked how happy people are.

anyqs Immediately when I see statistics on human emotions, I find myself asking, rather skeptically, how do they know how happy someone is? If I say that I am the highest level of happiness today, i.e. a 4, and then tomorrow I win the lottery, then I'm still stuck saying I'm a 4. I wonder what the statistics would have looked like if they gave their populations a greater range to choose from than 1 to 4? Perhaps 1 to 100? Would the people have rated themselves happier or less happy? Does forcing the sampling population into discrete values with a resolution of only four values affect how they respond? Further, the graph mentions that some countries weren't even surveyed some years... Perhaps they weren't surveyed during the worst years when everyone would have been very unhappy? \ The creators also gave "suggestions" as to why the counties got happier or sadder. For example, they believe that France became sadder as a whole country because we renamed Freedom Fries back to French Fries.. Really??? Is this website meant to give statistics or just to be funny? Consider the title, its even a joke. anyqs

I'm not much of a gamer but I found this interesting. Note the inferred correlations between juvenile crime and videogame usage in the lower charts.

I know its not from the news but I couldn't resist. 50%: empirical 89%: subjective

So, so true...

This has something to do with that... http://joedullblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/usb-4th-dimension1.gif