The Cost of Retirement (via The Big Picture)
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The truth about alcoholism (via Medical Insurance)
We’ll drink to our own doom!
Chart o’ Doom: Delicious Obesity Edition
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Double Down by the Numbers: Unhealthiest Sandwich Ever?
via jeffmiller
“Cornell students fed 35 million Flickr images into a university supercomputer to determine the most photographed landmarks. The Fifth Avenue Apple Store is the fifth most popular in New York—beating out the Statue of Liberty!—and number 28 worldwide.”
Apple Store Cube Is More Popular Landmark Than Statue of Liberty | Fast Company
It’s not exactly a chart of doom, but the left & center images above indicate an interesting distinction: from an international symbol of freedom to a postmodern shrine to consumerism.
Granted, the Apple store wins the location game, given its spot in Midtown, the more popular area. Some could argue, though, that people would make the 20 min train ride if the Statue of Liberty was important enough.
Population growth in the US, prison.
In 1980, there were 319,598 people in prison, representing 0.14% of the US population. In 2008, there were 1,518,559 people in prison, representing 0.5% of the US population. This doesn’t include jail, probation, or parole data.
Cause for doom #1: People talk on their mobile phones while driving which causes almost a quarter of all car accidents.
Cause for doom #2: the primary solution politicians seem to favor - bans on mobile phone use while driving - appears to be more politically effective than anything.
What just happened to the soldier suicide rate?
Data from 1,000 US Soldier Suicides
Chart-o-doom time
via DailyKos
This looks substantially less Doomy than the last time we had this exchange. The first derivative was still quite negative. Things are leveling off right now. But perhaps there’s more Doom in the future… We wonder what will happen as state budgets start to implode. Will that result in another downturn? Will it simply lessen the probability of a V-shaped recovery?
