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With simple materials found around the house, you too can conduct an experiment to see what has happened to the economy.

The story of an African-American cook at the Sigma Nu fraternity house at the University of Mississippi.

Sociologist and ethnographer Liz Pullen spent a month tracking the top 500 Twitter users (as ranked by number of followers) as well as the much-contested suggested users list. In tracking these accounts, she also closely analyzed the behaviors of new adopters and their expectations of the service. Perhaps her conclusions will help us all understand - and hopefully improve - the dismal attrition rates for every geek's favorite app.

Read the rest at ReadWriteWeb.com!

This video follows the path of a $25 loan from London, England to Preak Tamao village, Cambodia. Kiva.org is a website that allows internet users like you or I to lend money to people that need it in developing countries, with the aim of empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.

To find out more, go to kiva.org

Visualization of some immigration data made using processing.org.
Code can be found at klab.wikidot.com/immvis