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A very interesting project created by Eric Fischer that illustrates racial and ethnic divides of the American cities. Eric Fischer is an information designer with a penchant for mapping urban phenomena. His latest series is about urban segregation. It prominently features Raleigh, and even though the data is from the 2000 census, it is revealing and still relevant...

An execution chamber, or death chamber, is a room or chamber in which a legal execution is carried out. Execution chambers are almost always inside the walls of a maximum-security prison, although not always at the same prison where the death row population is housed. Inside the chamber is the device used to carry out the death sentence. In the United States, an execution chamber will usually contain a lethal injection table...

A member of European Parliament Licia Ronzulli took her 1-month-old baby to the Parliament session in Strasbourg. She wanted to make a point about the difficulties women face in trying to juggle careers and child care. Licia Ronzulli (Born: Milan, Italy 14 September 1975) is a Italian MEP from 7 June 2009 for the People of Freedom . The European Parliament (abbreviated as Europarl or the EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU)...

A skyline is best described as the overall or partial view of a city's tall buildings and structures consisting of many skyscrapers in front of the sky in the background. It can also be described as the artificial horizon that a city's overall structure creates. Skylines serve as a kind of fingerprint of a city, as no two skylines are alike. For this reason news and sports programs, television shows, and movies often display the skyline of a city to set location...

Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials, light sources, etc...