Your browser does not support iframes. Rick Santorum, Glenn Beck and the right made an effort to show that they can still flex their muscle now that the election is over by campaigning against the UN treaty on the Disabled which failed yesterday in the US Senate to make the needed two thirds majority of […]

Infant Mortality vs. Income for Certain States & Countries in 2006 The Gapminder Institute has come out with an online interactive graphic showing the United States’ individual states and all of the other nations of the world.  I created the graph at the left to show the relationship between per capita income and infant mortality […]

Statistician Hans Rosling, in a BBC documentary called The Joy of Stats, presents a neat 3-D graph presented below about how life expectancy in wealthy countries has improved over the last 200 years from the time of Napoleon Bonaparte to the present while poorer countries continue to lag behind. You can see in the clip […]