Oh No He Didn’t! Wait, But What Does GDP per Capita Actually Mean?
During his recent trip abroad, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney caused a political stir in Israel (among other places he went) when he said that “culture makes all the difference” in...
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GDP per Capita Around the World
Now that you can drop the concept of GDP per capita like the pros do, check out this interactive map that lists just about every country in the world (226) and their respective GDP per capita ranks in...
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Eight Neighboring Nations with the World’s Largest Wealth Gaps
The world is not an equal place, and some places are a lot more unequal than others. A national political border can have incredible significance; an abstract line separating neighboring peoples,...
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A New Pope For A New Catholic World
In our hyper-connected world, where success is often measured by the number of “followers” and “friends” we have, becoming pope is pretty much the holy grail. I mean, think about it: you become pope,...
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The World Cup of Nearly Everything Else: How the 32 Competing Countries...
If there was a World Cup of tree nut consumption, Iran would dominate the competition (92 calories per capita per day). That’s according to the data whizzes at the Wall Street Journal, who adapted the...
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World Cup Basics Explained Really Fast (Including the Slack Rules of Stoppage...
Correction: Several readers astutely pointed out that the map below of qualifying teams in the 2014 World Cup had inaccurately labeled Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as part of the English...
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7 Billion and Counting: How Our World Got So Crowded So Fast [Videos]
Roughly 1 billion people lived on our planet in 1800. And that was a pretty major deal, considering it took all of human history — at least 50,000 years — to reach that. But today, just a little more...
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Ireland Now Included in Gay Marriage Atlas of the World [Interactive Map]
Talk about a turnaround. Until 1993, Ireland, a majority Catholic nation, considered homosexuality a criminal offense. But on Saturday (May 23), its residents voted overwhelmingly to legalize same-sex...
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Tracking Four Decades of Refugee Migration [Interactive Map]
The hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into Europe this summer are a small fraction of the total displaced population around the world. War and persecution have forced a record number of...
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The Refugee Crisis: What You Need to Know [A Comic Infographic]
Click to view as a slideshow, or download the full piece here. Sources Eurostat 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees Frontex CIA World Factbook UNHCR
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MAP: How Many Refugees Did The U.S. Let In Last Year?
Talk about a whirlwind. To begin, a brief recap of the dramatic, confounding changes made to America’s immigration rules in the last week: On Jan. 27 — Holocaust Remembrance Day to be precise —...
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Coming to America: A History of Refugee Resettlement (with Lesson Plan)
Teach with the Lowdown Suggestions for nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our lesson plan collection here. Lesson Plan: History of U.S. Refugee...
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