Tag: death

ARTICLE via NGS: The Pyres of Varanasi: Breaking the Cycle of Death and Rebirth

The Pyres of Varanasi: Breaking the Cycle of Death and Rebirth One river, 18,000 feet, 1,500 miles. In the fall of 2013, photographer and videographer Pete McBride, along with professional […]

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VIDEO via FreeBase: Charting Culture by Mapping Migration

Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes By Lisa Raffensperger | July 31, 2014 2:00 pm   It’s enough to put an old-fashioned family tree to shame. A visualization […]

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NEWS vía GlobalPost: Latin America: The Cost of Murder

The effects that crime, violence, and the homicide rate have on Latin America is a model for the rest of the world. The loss of GDP due to a loss […]

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NEWS: UN: 6.6 Million Children Under 5 Died Last Year – ABC News

UN: 6.6 Million Children Under 5 Died Last Year LAGOS, Nigeria September 13, 2013 (AP) By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press Childhood death rates around the world have halved since 1990 […]

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