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Discrimination Is Breaking People's Hearts
Heart attacks, strokes and other consequences of cardiovascular disease are particularly dangerous for people who face inequity
Miriam Quick
Data journalist
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Heart attacks, strokes and other consequences of cardiovascular disease are particularly dangerous for people who face inequity
Exploring a new approach to sonification By Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick Most folks who work in data visualization would probably agree that visualization is a useful tool. Our jobs depend on the world being convinced of that, after all. But, why stop at visuals? Humans have five ( six?
The idea that organisms might attack themselves with immune with immune systems that evolved to defend them from diseases in the outside world made little sense to immunologist Paul Ehrlich. In 1901 the future Nobel laureate dismissed such a theory-he called it " horror autotoxicus "-as farfetched.
When I was 15 I discovered the Smiths, a band whose name had by then long been synonymous with misery. But it was Morrissey's unique style of being miserable - coquettish and laced with Northern English humour, flipping between self-pity and irony - that appealed to my teenage self.
Communicating sustainability data comes with its own challenges. Audiences may be sceptical of the data presented. Perhaps they feel apathetic, or don't have the time to engage with it. We asked data journalist Miriam Quick for a fresh take on communicating sustainability data to new or disengaged audiences.
Research by Miriam Quick. Illustrations by Valentina d'Efilippo. When countries undergo economic change, the effects of the transition aren't only financial - they have major population implications, too. This is very much the case in South Korea where, over the last three generations, the country has evolved like few others due to rapid industrialisation.
The world of work is being struck by waves of change. Some are vast and visible - leaps in machine learning and artificial intelligence or the rise of 'do anything from anywhere' technologies. Other ideas are just beginning to emerge - like monitoring content to ensure proper gender balance, or rethinking office design to promote air quality.
"Sell in May and go away" is an age-old investment adage, referring to the traditional belief that stocks show weaker performance in the summer, from May to October, and stronger performance in the winter, from November to April.
Physical data objects can help people come to terms with the interlocking environmental crises we face. And they may even make us more likely to do something about them. Welcome to Earth Week on Nightingale! In honor of Earth Day on April 22, we are publishing ...
"My prettiest contribution to the culture" was how the novelist Kurt Vonnegut described his old master's thesis in anthropology, "which was rejected because it was so simple and looked like too much fun". The thesis sank without a trace, but Vonnegut continued throughout his life to promote the big idea behind it, which was: "stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper".
Only one female director - Jane Campion - has ever won the Palme d'Or, the top film at the Cannes Film Festival, a fact she calls 'insane'. And in 2017, Sofia Coppola became only the second woman ever to win the best director prize, for The Beguiled.
All the times we've predicted - wrongly - how technology will change our lives.
Unlock your potential. Turbocharge your productivity. Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. These are just some of the bombastic guarantees of self-help book titles, which make up a substantial portion of the staggering 11,000 business books published in the US every year.
Each summer, hundreds of millions of dollars change hands as the world's top football clubs vie for the best players for the coming seasons. But what actually is a transfer, and how does it work? Why should I care? There's crazy money in it.
Women love romantic comedies. Men will laugh out loud at a crude joke. Women appreciate a subtle pun; men a brutal one-liner. 'Chick flicks' are for girls. 'Guy movies' are for, well, guys. There is no shortage of stereotypes out there about the films men and women are supposed to find funny.
When it comes to how we consume energy, there's good news and bad news. The bad news? Around 86% of global energy still comes from fossil fuels, which pollutes the planet and stokes climate change. The good news? In the 21st Century, we're poised to use more renewable energy sources than ever before, including those from wind or water.
The internet: not even 25 years ago, people barely knew what it was. Today, the modern world could barely operate without it. In this special series, Future Now takes a close look at the biggest, most important issues we face in the 21st Century.
What if meat was more environmentally friendly? The eco-burger of the future will be grown in a vat, by taking animal stem cells and feeding them nutrients until they grow into pieces of tissue large enough to eat. This is the technology behind lab-grown meat, also known as cultured or 'clean' meat.
How will the world's population continue to increase? There will be 11.2 billion of us by 2100, according to the UN's most likely scenario. But this is a projection, not a certainty. There's an outside chance the world's population could be as high as 16.6 billion by the end of the century.