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Cake day: October 29th, 2024

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  • Wie kritisch diese Darstellung ist, hängt von der Zeichenausgabe der jeweiligen Software ab: In der Chrome-Adresszeile, auf heise online und in Microsoft Word wird U+03DF etwa als geschwungenes Symbol dargestellt.

    Chrome-Adresszeile okay, aber Microsoft Word ist eine schlechte Wahl bzgl. der Darstellung, da das Umstellen des Fonts ein Feature ist. Und nebenbei hat heise scheinbar den selben Fehler wie GOG gemacht: In Firefox unter Android wird das Symbol nicht geschwungen dargestellt…


  • More important than ever: media literacy (and critical thinking).
    While it seems the theory and application is taught in school nowadays, i think it’s mostly about keeping the critical thinking going every time you hear news or any information especially from friends and family.
    We tend to believe stupid things if people we trust tell us. And if you have the foundations of critical thinking since your childhood it’s much easier to accept that your thinking is / was wrong and change it. There are enough people whose mind can’t be changed even with evidence or good reasoning.

    Talking with children about why something is communicated the way it is, which parts can be trusted and which not, which problems it has and so on is very important. And especially not focusing on your own political / moral / religious view in those situations. You love religion X? Don’t believe everything they say just because of that. You hate political party Y? Don’t think everything they say is automatically a lie just because of that.




  • I agree for the graphic but I think the reason for the solid color is that it was never intended as an image but just as an interactive map on the website. You can zoom very far in and see every (half transparent) point. Filtering for all, just driver / passenger death and pedestrian / bike / other deaths and choosing the year interval (2001-2024 as default) are nice extras





  • First off “Africa” (22.2% cars) and “Australia and New Zeland” (75.9% cars) are not shown. But probably more important: The paper where the data is taken from used the traffic data from 794 cities, “weighted by the population of each observation”. Most probably there were more cities from regions with high car usage in the data.
    Interesting side fact: “The 794 cities in the data are not representative samples of cities worldwide or different regions”.