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A great article on Mapping from recent issue of The Economist Source: The Economist Mapping a better world Jun 4th 2009 From The Economist print edition Software: Interest groups around the world are using mapping tools and internet-based information sources to campaign for change CONVINCING people about the evils of housing segregation can be tough, says Barbara Samuels, a campaigner for fair housing at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maryland. “People say, ‘What’s so bad about living in an all-black neighbourhood?’ ” she explains. But using a map that displays all the vacant houses in a segregated neighbourhood, how few jobs exist there and how little public transport is available, “you can show graphically how people are segregated from opportunity,” she says. “Maps help you take complex information and portray it in a clear, intuitive manner. You can show segregation in a way that talking about it doesn’t do.” And compiling such maps is much easier than it used to be, ...

Physics solves problems: Nobel laureate Klitzing German Nobel Prize winner Klaus Bohn Klitzing said has physics has been able to solve many problems world has faced and is facing today and expressed hope that international conference of physics in Nepal would ‘contribute to good international connection’ on scientific researches. German Nobel Prize winner Klaus Bohn Klitzing addressing the conference. nepalnews.com/rm German Nobel Prize winner Klaus Bohn Klitzing addressing the ... Addressing the international conference on physics organised by Nepal Physics Society in Kathmandu Tuesday, Klitzing said moral science and education play an important role for the development of a modern country which is integrated with the international community. In his inaugural address to the conference, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav said application of the methods of physics is essential for eradication of poverty, adding that studies of science, being interwoven with human society, cannot be isolated. ...