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| 27.10.2013, 00:50 - ay5hjytjoe - Anfänger - 5 Posts S. red countries are less equal This map gives you a sense of just how severe economic inequality is in the United States; much higher than in any other developed country and most developing countries as well21 Global crop yields are stagnatingA University of Minnesota study recently published in the journal Nature found that a significant share of the world's crop-growing regions are seeing growth stagnate slow or even collapse They published three other maps; 22 The best and worst countries to be a motherA international NGO designed a complex formula to indicate which countries are better or worse for mothers 23 How al-Qaeda is changingThis map of core al-Qaeda and its affiliates 24 More than half of humanity lives inside this circle25 Legal systems of the worldOne reason I find this map fascinating is it shows how British colonialism took the English "common law" legal system -- once nearly unique in the world -- and has now spread it across every continent You can also see that religious law is unique to Islamic countries (although it didn't use to be) and that customary law once near-global is now almost extinct26 How far Hamas's rockets can reach into IsraelView in a larger mapThis helps drive home why Israel is so concerned about Hamas the Gaza-based Islamist militant group and Those are the ones that can reach into the light-yellow region27 North Korea's missile rangeNorth Korea makes its missile program sound like a terrifying and immediate threat to the United States but as this map demonstrates 28 Child poverty in the developed worldThe United States by child poverty rates above only Romania The United States 29 The cancer villages of ChinaChina's problem with "cancer villages" or communities where cancer rates are spiking thought to be due to rapidly worsening pollution have become such a big problem that even Communist Party-run outlet Global Times 30 What Europeans think about the European UnionEurope's economic slump is no secret but how people within the European Union feel about their big collective experiment can very widely This map is of whom the EU has helped whom it has hurt and who think they shouldn't really count as European (read: the United Kingdom)31 Meet the world's 26 remaining monarchiesThere are barely two dozen left and only 11 of them are really still in charge but they've all got a story to tell 32 The diversity of the LevantThis color-coded map shows the different ethnic groups of Syria Lebanon Jordan and Israel There's an awful lot of history packed into this corner of the world -- and maybe some of the deepest ethnic and religious animosities anywhere in the world33 The nuclear powers after the Cold WarThe Cold War may have ended but its thousands of nuclear warheads are still around -- and often still divided along the same lines This map shows in blue the Russian "umbrella states" which are formally under the protection of Russian nuclear weapons and in orange the "umbrella states" protected by the US/NATO The five other nuclear powers -- Israel Pakistan India China and North Korea -- are in gray34 How people think their economies are doing Click to enlarge Data source: Gallup (Max Fisher/Washington Post)[/caption]People in red countries are pessimistic about their country's economy; people in blue countries are more optimistic 35 A partial map of geopolitical anomaliesEach of these red markers cheekily indicates some unusual or unique phenomenon -- for example Abkhazia the "barely recognized puppet state" just between Russia and Georgia (Read more on ) My favorite may be the various overseas French territories such as French Guyana that are simply and accurately labeled "France" The map was designed by Stanford Professor Martin Lewis; 36 Where the atheists livePlenty of godlessness in China Japan and a few European countries perhaps unsurprisingly But despite the fact that it's considered a serious crime37 What the Muslim world believes part 1: democracyThe first of three maps from a comprehensive study on attitudes and views in the Muslim world () shows that most Muslims broadly support democracy with a few telling exceptions38 What the Muslim world believes part 2: religious conflictSignificant shares of just about every large Muslim population worry about religious conflict (there is a widespread view in many Muslim-majority countries that the religion is under siege from the outside world) That share is more than half in four countries: Tunisia Pakistan Nigeria and Niger39 What the Muslim world believes part 3: honor killingsRed indicates countries where most surveyed Muslims believe that "honor killings" -- the practice of killing someone typically a member of your own family for having sex out of wedlock -- are sometimes justified Blue indicates countries where most surveyed Muslims believe it is never justified40 The world as seen from space over a 12-month time-lapseThis NASA moving image recorded by satellite over a full year as part of their shows the ebb and flow of the seasons and vegetation Both are absolutely crucial factors in every facet of human existence -- so crucial we barely even think about them It's also a reminder that the Earth is for all its political and social and religious divisions still unified by the natural phenomena that make everything else possible.D. 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