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Rosling is a global public health expert, and is passionate about how statistical data should inform our understanding of global regions, individual nations in comparison with each other, and he challenges the possibly erroneous conventional wisdom about differences between "first world" and "third world" nations in terms of social markers that exist. This item is useful background for understanding foundational aspects of any area of the globe, and it also points you to relevant data sources.

This animated data software is available at http://www.gapminder.org/ It could make a great format for your final project in lieu of a more conventional paper -- something to think about?

An computer at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was infected with a virus, and it might have had information about their new rocket taken from it. If data about the rocket, Epsilon, and the other rockets being developed along with it was taken, the mission to launch them next year has been compromised. Japan is hoping to compete against the space programs of the U.S., China, and Russia, so this would be a major setback for them.