Gleanings of the Week Ending January 19, 2013
/The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles I read this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article.
Geometric Sculpture by George W. Hart - the ‘skinks’ is my favorite
Tap into the 2013 Natchez Trace Parkway Visitors Guide - available in PDF
What You Don’t Know About Home Burglaries - infographic. 65% of burglaries happen during the day and other factoids
Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #33 - my favorite is the Indian peafowl
Australian Heat Wave Is Literally Off the Color Scale
Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future - TED talk
These Days, Darwin Would Need To Know More About Jupiter - What Can Astronomers Teach Biologists? - 4 perspectives
Americans Have Worse Health Than People in Other High-Income Countries; Health Disadvantage Is Pervasive Across Age and Socio-Economic Groups - from the National research Council and Institute for Medicine. Full report can be found here.
Human Numbers Through Time - the graphics show population growth over the past 2 millennia. It was created in 2004 but I just found it this past week
