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Spotlight Drug testing at the Summer Olympics
With the Summer Olympics taking place in Beijing, it's interesting to review the history of drug testing at the Olympics. As the testing laboratories have introduced newer test methods, the athletes doping find more exotic dopands or new ways to avoid being caught with existing drugs. This "arms race" is perhaps best demonstrated by the Moscow Olympics of 1980: during the Moscow games, none of the 1,645 tests performed (in urine) came back positive for doping at the time. Read more from selenized.
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Starbucks Outlets: A Tipping Point?
On 1 July 2008, Starbucks announced the closure of around 600 outlets in the US. More drastically, on 29 July they then announced that 61 of the 84 Australian outlets would be closing. Although the US closures represent a far smaller proportion of total outlets than here in Australia, they still represent a striking turnaround in the previously relentless growth of the coffee giant. Read more from seancarmody.
Top Ranked Tennis Players
On August 18th, Rafael Nadal will rise to the Number 1 ranking among tennis players from around the world. This graph shows the top ten tennis players by their ranking points. In the Wimbledon final Nadal beat Federer for the fourth time this season, which assured the end of Federer's 237-week reign as the world's top tennis player. Both athletes are competing at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Data uploaded by Dmitry.
Beijing 2008 Olympics: Medal Count by Country
The Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics began with a many bangs, courtesy of the thousands of drummers in the opening ceremony. Once competition began, a tally of medals won seemed like an obvious data set for Swivel. Since no-one else had embarked on this task, I decided to take it on myself. At first I was typing in the data, but scanning the medal table on the Official Olympics site quickly became a challenge. Read more from seancarmody.
Internet Use in China
China is the largest market for Internet users (253 M as of June 2008) despite the fact that only 19.1% of the country’s population is online. By contrast, the United States is estimated to have about 220 million Internet users, or about 70% of its population. Read more from apurba.
U.S. Population Projections
Viewing U.S. Census Bureau Population Projections for changes and trends in the aging population over the next 40 years is a revealing exercise. The rainbow of lines in the resulting graph represents trends for age groups from 50 to 100+ in five-year increments across the next 40 years, from 2010 to 2050. Read more from grjenkin.
Multiple Olympic Gold Medalists
Michael Phelps is the biggest star of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He started off with 6 gold medals from the Athens Olympics 2004, and has won another 5 world-record-breaking gold medals in Beijing so far. He still has 3 more events in swimming. With a total of 11 gold medals, Phelps currently holds the most medals won by any Olympic athlete. This year, his goal is to win the most gold medals awarded in a single Olympic game; the record is currently held by fellow American swimmer, Mark Spitz with 7. —Classy MIT Frat Guy
Arresting Bloggers
The World Information Access Project at the University of Washington released a report that identified 64 bloggers, unaffiliated with news organizations, who had been arrested for the contents of their blogs between 2003 and 2008. The growing number of such blogger arrests underscores the political importance of blogging around the world. Read more from apurba.
Population Exposed to Contaminants in Tap Water
Do you know what's in your tap water? A study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that there are more than 140 contaminants with no enforceable safety limits found in the nation's drinking water. This graph shows the population (in millions) exposed to contaminants over the health limit by state. Read more.
Hasbro Sues Popular Facebook Application
The chart shows about 4 million users installed the application and more than 500,000 people played the online word game daily on Facebook. This July, toy and game manufacturers, Hasbro and Mattel, which share ownership of the Scrabble trademark, forced Facebook to remove Scrabulous over copyright and trademark issues from US and Canadian Facebook pages. Read more from apurba.
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