On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie

About this talk All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic Project will use this shared DNA to figure out how we are -- in all our diversity -- truly conn

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Forced Migration Online is a comprehensive web site ... information resources on forced migration. It is a technically and ... subject area – in this case, forced migration. It can therefore produce more

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, using equal area cartograms where territories are re-sized on each map according to a particular variable. The maps and data files cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to inc

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Immigrant Status is a multi-disciplinary arts and community program series initiated in 2002 and created in response to the loss experienced by Minnesota's immigrant community following the death of Senator Paul Wellstone. It explores the impact of current

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World Population: More Than Just Numbers ( PDF: 964KB ) The story of world population includes many statistics—birth rates, death rates, rates of population increase, maternal mortality rates, and so on—but the story first and foremost is about people. Thi

How countries treat those who have been forced to flee persecution and human rights abuse elsewhere is a litmus test of their commitment to defending human rights and upholding humanitarian values. Yet, fifty years after its inception, the states that firs