Regulation – Insight Sciences

Replace the GDP with the social progress measure

April 28, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Forget GDP: The Social Progress Index Measures National Well-Being
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

What’s the best way to tell how a country is doing (and serving its citizens)? It’s not just a measure of economic output, that’s for sure. This new index tracks everything from opportunity to health to sustainability. Guess where the U.S.…

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Manufacturing Employment and Output (oregoneconomicanalysis.wordpress.com)
Economic Data (matttellis.wordpress.com)
Up to 5 per cent of world GDP lost due to malnutrition: UN (thehindu.com)

Visualizing cities at night with no lights

December 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

This Is How Cities Would Look at Night Without Lights
Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com

These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city…

RT @core77: Awesome photos of how major cities would look without light pollution – http://flip.it/yhVfP http://flip.it/VSaLp

Here’s what the night sky would look like without light pollution (venturebeat.com)
Photographs of Darkened Cities (enpundit.com)
City adopts light pollution guidelines for new developments (calgaryherald.com)
WE Curate: Let there be no light. (westeastmag.com)
Light Pollution (nzbackyardastronomer.wordpress.com)