Tourism in the Basque Country is on the rise - no wonder, it’s just a gorgeous part of the world. The blogosphere isn’t lagging behind - Weblogs SL has just inaugurated a blog on tourism in the Basque Country - mainly centered on Bilbao at the moment, but it includes some great sights such as [...]

The Miniature Earth Project is a neat little film about what life would be like if the world population were reduced to 100 people. It presents some interesting figures that make you think…

This is the YouTube version, but it’s on the Miniature Earth Project website as well in much better quality and in different languages.

Hans Rosling is an absolute legend! Who thought that a twenty-minute talk on statistics could be that much fun?! (I’m a trustworthy source; I have a love-hate relationship with numbers that definitely tilts more towards the hate side.)
This is last year’s video, in which he presents his new way of processing human development statistics with [...]

All those of us worried about the lack of sex appeal of the European Union need not worry. The EU’s film programme, Media, is bringing sexy back with two wonderful videoclips to launch its new media support programme, Media 2007.
Both of them incorporate scenes from European film projects of the past, including classics such as [...]

Following threats from Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa against the Ecuadorian press, the Spanish newspaper El País will have an interview with Francisco Vivanco Riifrio, president of the Ecuadorian critical newspaper La Hora. Readers can submit questions for Vivanco on-line. Correa’s threats come at a very difficult time for freedom of speech in Latin American as [...]

This is genius! I wish I’d had it with me yesterday when I actually went to a seminar. It would have come in handy…

From: PhD Comics. Thanks to Sergio for the alert!

This is a nifty little thing I accidentally discovered when I was looking up a word in an on-line dictionary: a Visual Thesaurus. You punch in a word and then it comes up with a mind-map type interactive panel of synonyms and related words. On the screenshot below, for example, you can click on “profession”, [...]

Following up the other day’s post on Gapminder, here is another very cool graphic and interactive representation of human development. Breathing Earth maps CO2 emissions, births, and deaths on a world map - in real time. Watch the industrial countries committing ecological sins and China’s population grow…
Seen on: Microsiervos.