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...other offerings now include Probably Bad News, which catalogs news bloopers, like the headline CHILDREN COOK & SERVE GRANDPARENTS. GraphJam invites users to create statistical commentaries on pop culture, like a pie chart estimating the proportion of e-mails that come from "Friends," "MySpace" or, the largest category, "People Who Want Me to Have a Bigger Penis...
...fact, GOP leaders have said that global warming is a hoax, that fears about carbon are "almost comical," that the earth is actually cooling. When I asked Chu about the earth-is-cooling argument, he rolled his eyes and whipped out a chart showing that the 10 hottest years on record have all been in the past 12 years - and that 1998 was the hottest. He mocked the skeptics who focus on that post-1998 blip while ignoring a century-long trend of rising temperatures: "See? It's gone down! The earth must be cooling!" But then he got serious...
...following text appears within a chart. Please see hardcopy or PDF for actual chart...
...following text appears within a chart. Please see hardcopy or PDF for actual chart...
...mortgage, a homeowner can't sell and pay off his debt. If a house becomes unaffordable - because of job loss, say, or an adjusting mortgage interest rate - the homeowner is trapped. Underwater borrowers are more likely to default on their mortgages than those with positive equity. (See a chart showing metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of underwater borrowers...