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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Late Lunch - Breathing Earth and Cicadas
I recently discovered this website, breathingearth.net, that shows you every human who dies or is born in what it claims is real-time, by showing a small blip on a world map. You can also mouse over countries to see how much carbon dioxide they are emitting, whether their population is rising or falling, and other stats. With its attractive graphics and ability to work pretty well even on a very slow computer like mine, this site is kind of addictive. A note, though - the whole thing is accompanied by a rising and falling noise that reminds me of cicadas on a midsummer night. Maybe they're just preparing us for the plague of the killer cicadas that they're unleashing in 2080. (Conspiracy theorists, take note!)
Labels:
carbon dioxide,
cicadas,
CO2,
earth,
map,
population
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