20 May A Tool For Building Beautiful Data Visualizations

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Visage makes infographics easy, and they customize palettes for free.

If you’re an art director at a media outlet, odds are you have to assign and commission each data visualization you publish. That gets time-consuming, even when the graphic in question is nothing but a small pie chart running alongside a feature story.

Visage, a newly launched platform, provides custom templates for graphics. There are myriad tools on the market that do this (for a gander at 30 of them, check out this list), but Visage is the latest, and it’s gaining traction with designers at Mashable, MSNBC, and A&E…

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20 May CORE Education’s Ten Trends 2014

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http://www.core-ed.org/thought-leadership/ten-trend

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20 May What is a Climate and Energy Indicator? | Infographic

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This infographic is from the 2014 Environmental Performance Index. The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks how well countries perform on high-priority environmental issues in two broad policy areas: protection of human health from environmental harm and protection of ecosystems. Within these two policy objectives the EPI scores country performance in nine issue areas comprised of 20 indicators. Indicators in the EPI measure how close countries are to meeting internationally established targets or, in the absence of agreed-upon targets, how they compare to the range of observed countries.

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17 May You Can Now Text 9-1-1 in Case of Emergency

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People are advised to text 911 if they are deaf, hard of hearing, have a speech disability or are in a situation where making a call could be dangerous.

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17 May Smart Bike Brings GPS Directions to Your Handle Bars

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The Vanhawks Valour smart bike connects with a smartphone app and brings tech like GPS directly to the handle bars.

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17 May Infographic: What Does It Take To Be A Teacher?

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What Does It Take To Be A Teacher? Infographic shows that teachers’ realities are growing increasingly complex.

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16 May The most unforgettable creations of H. R. Giger

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We lost one of our greatest inspirations when H.R. Giger died the other day. But his artworks will live on and yield more creative bounty in the years to come. To celebrate his life and career, here’s a showcase of the most incredible (and unnerving) artworks of H.R. Giger.

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16 May Magnum Photos Blog

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16 May 21 Smells That Will Bring You Back to Childhood

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All it takes is a familiar scent from the past to unleash a floodgate of forgotten memories.
The sense of smell has many different purposes for us humans.

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16 May Wonderfully Imaginative Photographs That Capture The Secret Lives Of Ants – DesignTAXI.com

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Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov, whom we have previously featured, has more wonderfully imaginative photographs that capture the secret…

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