Hunger Strikes

What happens to your body when you go into a hunger strike.

(original via Maria Popova @brainpicker)

How common is your birthday?

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How much Yahoo! needs Facebook

Today at pando daily:

Yahoo woke up and realized that Facebook has way too much control over its users. 

But as our infographic below shows, that hardly happened over night. As with most things in Sunnyvale, if Yahoo is upset about that, it only has itself to blame. Desperate to stay relevant and keep growing, Yahoo continually integrated its products deeper and deeper with Facebook, and now it finds itself beholden to the social networking giant.

If the world's population lived in one city...

Is it me or infographics are the next big thing? This is a cool one:

Chart from Per Square Mile

Paris and New York are way too dense, and Houston too spread out. I like San Fran, maybe London :).

Have a great week!

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