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Html5 and what does it bring


It's all the rage on the Internet right now and it's slowly being adopted as the next standard when it comes to how web pages are created. For the tech savvy, developers and people that like the backstage it's already known for it's new features and rewritten tags, but for the vast majority of the Internet it's just a new name to watch out for. Well, in my field we need to be constantly up to date when it comes to updates and new technology so I've already had my contact with htlm5 and find it great and it's really a good step forward. So, I found this to be a great infograph to just explain what exactly is coming our way and why should we care. Without going into overly complicated terms and names, it simply gives a general idea of what's new, why is it a good thing and how will it affect the end user.

Browser compatibility is a big issue right now when it comes to html5 for the simple fact that, not being a standard yet, the developers are not really "concerned" that they're browsers can't use html5 to it's fullest. But gladly many of them are actually preparing for it, already have most of the support it needs and just a bit more tweaking is needed for them to have a fully functional html5 compatible browser. One thing to notice which can be interesting is the fact that open source Firefox had a pretty compatible browser already earlier than Microsoft, a fully grown, tech giant.

Lastly we can take a look at some of the aspects that currently have Flash and html5 battling each other head on, simply because html5 comes in to lighten up the Internet from flash's heavy burden, but each has it's advantages and disadvantages and it's still early to judge or decide on a winner, it might just turn out that there's enough room for everyone.

Time Traveling


Time traveling, we've all wished for it to be real sometime sadly it might be years away. Not being a reality however, doesn't stop people from creating its paradoxes, theories and speculations of the intricate how's of its work. Even though no one as ever experienced it, scientists and other figures have studied and researched the subject and came up with ways to explain the dangers, consequences and benefits of time traveling.

The concept can be simple enough for the common folk, I mean, all we have to do is get in a box/cabin/machine tell it where and when to go and you're there. Thing is, it's way more complicated specially when it comes to alter our own past. Let's try and think logically, say you build a time machine, you go back to a certain point in your life and meet or help your past self, what happens is a paradox right here, if you met yourself at some point in your life, wouldn't you remember it in the present? Or if you go and alter something in your past, will you build or have the machine still? What if you never took the decision to build it? Would you still alter the past?

See now this is where Einstein's multiverse theory comes into play, saying that there's an infinite number of realities all parallel to each other and every time you make a decision another one is created. This would fit quite well and fix the paradoxes, because you'd be simply creating more versions of reality but only remaining conscious of one at a time.

This one infograph doesn't talk about multiverses but it implies them, it's a bit confusing maybe at a first read but understandable. Basically it creates an universe where a version of you is "stuck" in a cycle of getting into the time travel box and getting out of it while a version that did take advantage of the machine, well goes of to win a lot of money in the stock market!

Billionaires and you


Today I bring you a curiosity infograph rather than a useful one, doesn't mean however it's not worth looking into! So it's basically the distribution of wealth at a global scale and who in the world actually holds it and where.

For the grand majority of the common folk this is more rage inducing than anything I mean, looking at these numbers and seeing how it seems to concentrate on just a handful of companies can be outrageous. Firstly there's the most evident thing to be noticed which is that most of the money seems to be held by United States companies the big ones everyone knows and hears about adding to that the fact that from 300 billionaires about a third are from that same country just tells us that well, the US are doing great I suppose. It's interesting to note that from those 300, only 110 became billionaires by inheritance, seems like the other guys are working for their money. But then as it can be seen only 29 of them are women, which can mean 2 things either they're just picking up pace because for many years working rights for both weren't exactly the same, or that they still struggle a lot.

Worth mentioning that most of these companies are IT and technologies related meaning we really are in a technological era of growth, everyone get on the bandwagon!

Body language

Language. One of humanity's greatest achievements is the ability to communicate, sound, gestures, we got around to build a lot, conquer a lot and get to this point of development by working together and communicating.

Language is a core part of communication and without it it would be hard. But language isn't bound to a verbal thing only, language can be physical, written, basically anything where we can express yourselves. So why not have a type of language of the body itself? It's something with which we can indeed express what we want to, right? Well there is a body language, the body can indeed "talk" and it's quite interesting when one can indeed interpret it.

So this is what this short infograph is about, a few body signs that if read right can give you an edge at some point! Of course there are a lot more ways for the body to show something but these are already quite interesting, and it says right there that the body can indeed produce 700,000 different signs, it's a whole language to be learned but if you do it you'll end up like those mentalists guys that can "read your mind" when in fact they're just paying extreme attention to what your body is saying instead of your mouth.

Take a look at it, I found it curious and interesting!

Genetics and Humankind


Now this is something that some people would like to completely deny that it's true. Plain and simple, shows that we basically came from the same common ancestor and due to location, climate, food, well a lot of factors, evolved and went our "separate ways".

Genetics once again coming and showing the world we come from the same place! Must be a slap in the face for some. And it's interesting to see how diverse, and creative in fact, nature and the environment and of course us as a specie  end up being if the result is such diversity in shape, size, color everything from skin to body type to hair and eyes differs because some of us needed to survive harsh conditions, cold, heat and other natural things.

But it's not just he common 1 ancestor that's interesting also the common "sub" ancestors like for a quick example one shared between Indians, Italians and Greeks and the differences between them are noticeable!

There's not much to say or explain about this one, worth mentioning how we can all go into 8 different groups and still end up all different from each other, quite a feat!



Snake Oil?


We all came across some of these, or maybe not, at some point in our lives either we were searching for them or not but truth is supplements are a daily product we come across, either inside our food or in a more direct form, things like vitamins, plants and another whole array of things that supposedly are good for us.

No matter how many and how much brands, people and whatever more comes along try to sell these to you promising great results, and quick too, it's always worth taking a look at what is it that you're really falling for and if it works. So, I thought this was a very useful Infograph it's simple, colorful and actually educational. So basically it shows how popular something and places it among a scale of proven effects backed by evidences.

Some things are worth noticing, mainly that it seems that people are actually making informed choices and that's quite simply great! The supplements with the higher demand volume are, for the great part, ones with the most proven evidence of their effects! Sure there are still some stray cats but nothing really bad I mean there seems to be some evidence for Goji and Ginseng, popular natural products from the East, so it's nothing really bad and could actually help people even if it's just a sort of placebo.

It is actually pretty nice to see such a distribution of interest meaning people in general don't seem that much dumb as some marketers and shady sellers on the internet think they are, promising everything and then more. A proof that informed consumers do indeed make better choices.

Pacific garbage patch



Now this one genuinely surprised me. I've heard of all the garbage we are collecting in outer space, all of it buried in huge deposits on land but I had no clue such a thing existed at sea. But it's not the fact that it exists that I was most surprised about but rather its sheer size! 3 times the size of the Iberic Peninsula, now that's huge! It's worth mentioning that it's not "directly" formed by us but rather a group of other factors such as currents in the pacific, still worrying.

Although this is pretty serious and should be a worry for us, I at least think it's better like this that all the debris and trash that gets to the sea by sewers and rivers actually gathers itself in one place only instead of being scattered around a greater area. It is however worrying that such thing exists and I must assume it's not getting any smaller but rather on the contrary getting bigger, it's not because it can't decompose and transform into something at least useful to the planet but because the speed at which it happens is so much lower than the speed at which it's produced.

It's a great eye opener and let's hope it doesn't end up like some of India's rivers.