Seven Revolutions

THE propaganda message, scrawled in white paint on the side of a wood-frame house, could hardly be more blunt: "Cure stupidity, cure poverty". The cure for both, in one of China's poorest counties, seems to be a daily nutritional supplement for children.

This page shows an image of the development of the US over the last 170 years.

Interesting take on how to reinvent.

This is an interesting infographic to demonstrate the volume of traffic on the internet. It covers instagram, facebook, skype, google searches, email, and so forth. It is a quick way to get a sense of the scope of information flow and connectivity.

This site is a useful guide that includes country and regional facts about the world. It is similar to the CIA World Factbook, but focused more on cultural issues and less on demographic and political information.

This is a great additional resource for the global villager exercise.

An interactive map that shows vaccine preventable disease outbreaks from 2008 to 2013.

The Promise and Perils of the Synbio Revolution

VIETNAM and China share a long history of enmity-and of managing to patch things up when they go wrong. But their latest dispute is not running true to form. Vietnam was taken aback in early May when China parked an oil rig on its doorstep.