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There are some crazy teacher statistics out there. Many say that nearly half of all teachers will leave the profession within five years.[1]

"A 93-year-old former British secret agent will receive France's highest award for her courage - 70 years after parachuting behind enemy lines in preparation for D-Day"

"Students will examine and interpret statistics to help them learn about the hardships many Canadians faced during the Great Depression. Students will work in groups and use information from the Canada Year Book 1937. They will role-play as members of families with different incomes and needs and attempt to set up family budgets. Students will come to respect the challenges, experiences and frustrations of families who had to struggle to survive in the Great Depression. "

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).

"Explore new estimates of migration flows between and within regions for five-year periods, 1990 to 2010. Click on a region to discover flows country-by-country."