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This animation distils hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable individuals like David, King of Israel, and Leonardo da Vinci, from 600 BC to the present day. Using them as a proxy for skills and ideas, their map reveals intellectual hotspots and tracks how empires rise and crumble The information comes from Freebase, a Google-owned database of well-known people and places, and other catalogues of notable individuals. The visualization was created by Maximilian Schich (University of Texas at Dallas) and Mauro Martino (IBM).

"This week we found out that this was not to be the case. The opening paragraph of the TRC Report leaves little room for interpretation: For over a century, the central goals of Canada's Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious and racial entities in Canada. The establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of this policy, which can be best described as 'cultural genocide.'"

"Quebec explains one of the reason she wants to separate is fear of losing her cultural identity. Canada and America responds."

"If we can be culturally conditioned to imagine that the "fallen" somehow "sacrificed" themselves for an end loftier than just the battlefield - be it empire or freedom or a new federation - then the prosaic ugliness of war death and survivor torment becomes ever more remote from the politicians who are ultimately responsible for it."

"Digging Up Ads From WWII-When They Pushed Products No One Could Buy During World War II, companies stayed in the public eye by advertising products-often with the government's help-that weren't available to civilians."