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Call it the poor man's health insurance policy, if you will. Casting aside fear of cultural stereotyping as, uh, folks who don't believe in throwing away money, researchers at two Scottish universities delved into the statistics and noticed that the presence of green spaces reduces visits by the grim reaper,

Across the country, there are "health inequalities" related to income and social deprivation, which generally reflect differences in lifestyle, diet, and, to some extent, access to medical care.
This means that in general, people living in poorer areas are more likely to be unhealthy, and die earlier.
However, the researchers found that living near parks, woodland or other open spaces helped reduce these inequalities, regardless of social class.

Me, I've turned my little eighth of an acre of subdivision into a wildlife refuge and maybe both the native flora and fauna as well as this old man will chill out a little while longer...and without wasting resources, natural or imaginary, like monetary systems. The picture on the left is my front yard. The one on the right is from the NY Times. I'm not poor, but I'm not rich. I got laid off and retired earlier this year. The folks on the right are an illustration of a story of the highest unemployment rate in 14 years (and you know how they fudge THOSE numbers to make them look better than they really are!) I recently had a heart stress test on the treadmill and I'm good to go for another 5 years. Folks on the right - rich or poor or middle class - they look like they could use a little greens pace around them right about now. And remember: manure, like money, works best when it's distributed widely so that all the plants in the garden get a little and every flower gets a chance to bloom.

tags: stress health visual literacy greenspace

stuff observed viewing the online edition of the UK press: Ai chihuaha! This is neither a pit bull nor a hockey mom! It's a chihuaha with a Sarah Palin wig and pearls! Maybe that's where the Republican National Committee spent its clothing budget? We don't want health care for everyone, that's socialism, we want tax cuts that create jobs for people to take make little designer outfits for pet lap dogs, to mop up behind them... that's called the "trickle down" effect.(more after read more)

tags: visual cultural literacy anthropology

Heuristic: Use both graphics and text or numbers to convey the message. In most cases, present graphic information on a linear scale.
Note:Be sure to cite your data sources for your graph.
In the example shown, a great deal of information is provided concisely and accurately. The visual impact is immediate and the numbers and labels fill in the details. Note that the additional bars for tenured (more after the read more link)

tags: visual literacy higher education

Here's a link to a link of an online comic that is syndicated to a number of paper newspapers.
I recently got a DVD of a film called McLuhan's Wake and sort of watched it on the computer while I was trying to do some other things at the same time.
Every time I see someone with a tattoo I remember his comments about how the global village and the world becoming more tribal.

tags: global internet youtube visual literacy marshall mcluhan medium message village