According to Mexican press accounts, the deadly swine-flu outbreak now spreading into the U.S. is linked to large-scale hog operations in Mexico run by industrial-meat giant Smithfield Foods.
John Feffer: "As anti-intellectualism grows ever more profound, only the comic can get away with being smart (everyone else is a pointy-headed elitist)."
Professor Rosling from Karolinska Institutet lectures on YouTube about statistical databases, visualization, and our (mis)conceptions about the situation in various countries and continents.