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Infographic of the Day: Which Countries Force Kids to Work?

Infographic of the Day: Which Countries Force Kids to Work?

Remember a few years back, when big companies such as Nike kept getting immersed in sweatshop scandals? You hardly hear about that sort of stuff anymore. But the fact is, child labor and forced labor remain startlingly common throughout the developing world.

This superb interactive chart shows you everything you need to know, from the countries where child and forced labor are most prevalent, to what exactly is being made -- the point being to better inform people, so that they can avoid such goods.

A Building That Will Earn $1 Billion a Year, Built in Just Five

A Building That Will Earn $1 Billion a Year, Built in Just Five

There's a lot to be said for an economy where pesky barriers like democracy don't block the way for major real estate deals. Want to launch a job-creating, tourism-enhancing, revenue-generating multibillion dollar development in record time? If you're Singapore, you can pull off a mega-resort, with hotels, shopping, convention center, casino, museum and theater in oh, say, four and a half years, start to finish.

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Infographic: What Were Social Networks Like, for Great Minds Like Newton and Voltaire?

Infographic: What Were Social Networks Like, for Great Minds Like Newton and Voltaire?

Think having 5000 Facebook friends is impressive? What if you had to maintain those relationships with status updates that took weeks or months to arrive? That wasn't a problem for literati in the 1700s, who managed to maintain impressive social networks with handwritten letters.

A team from Stanford has mapped this "social graph" in an interactive graphic that visualizes 55,000 letters exchanged between 6400 correspondents. Here's the dashboard for 1700 to 1801: