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Quantifying innovation, especially on a large scale, is incredibly difficult. But, Solidiance, an Asian marketing and innovation strategy consulting firm, is trying to do with its list of the most innovative cities in the Asia Pacific region.
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The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects.
According to a new groundbreaking academic study, some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor. The study has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. Oxford University’s poverty and human development initiative report predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.
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Night lights
How is light distribution of light across the planet changing over time? Light produced by a society is closely correlated with its economic status. Rich developed countries tend to be brighter at night than poor developing ones.
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You probably took away a couple facts if you watched Poltizane’s viral video on U.S. wealth inequality. America’s rich claim an even more mind-bogglingly huge share of the nation’s wealth than they do of its income, and most people in this country would like them to have less of it.
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“Glass-ceiling”
You would do well to move to New Zealand if you are a working woman. If New Zealand is too far out of the way you could try one of the Nordic countries. The Economist has compiled its own “glass-ceiling index” to mark International Women’s Day. The index shows where women have the best chance of equal treatment at work.
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Migrant laborers work late into the evening at a brick kiln in central India.
The lifetime profit on a brickmaking slave in Brazil is $8,700, and $2,000 in India. Sexual slavery brings the slave’s owner $18,000 over the slave’s working life in Thailand, and $49,000 in Los Angeles. These are some chilling statistics on global slavery. (Infographic)
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TED2013
We are connected with people all over the world by the internet. But could the internet also connect us with dolphins, apes, elephants and other highly intelligent species?
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In 2012, global music sales rose by 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion. This marks the first good year for the music industry since 1999.The music industry’s 21st century renaissance comes down to four factors: Better mobile technology, a growing global middle class, more music-listening options, and an effective crackdown on piracy that is making paid music a more attractive option.
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Cyber cold-war
A lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data for corporations in America was circulated to the country’s internet providers last week by the Obama administration. But, it left out an important fact that almost every one of the digital addresses could be traced to he neighborhood in Shanghai that is headquarters to the Chinese military’s cybercommand.
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MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D desktop printer.
It may only be in its infancy, but a new startup has already found a way to disrupt the 3D printing industry. Makexyz is a 3D printing service with a brilliantly simple premise: Link the 3D printer owners of the world with the designers that need them. It’s like Airbnb or Wheelz, but for 3D printers.
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Shipwreck articles
Geotagging – every Wikipedia entry has this optional feature that we take for granted. An entry on the Lincoln Memorial will be linked to its specific latitude and longitude in Washington D.C. On any individual post, this may or may not be a useful thing. But what about looking at these locations en masse?
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Asia-Pacific surpasses North America to become world’s No. 1 market for B2C ecommerce sales.
B2C ecommerce sales grew 21.1% to top $1 trillion for the first time in 2012, according to new global estimates by eMarketer.
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