Bottled water
Two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes (2007)
- one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours (2008)
- 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds
see more statistics here.
Find out more about plastic (I)
Find out more about plastic (II)
The life satisfaction and happiness index for the E.U. member states and candidate countries gives the following rankings, from most happy and satisfied to least happy and least satisfied:
1. Denmark
2. Sweden
3. Finland
4. Norway
5. Netherlands
6. Luxembourg
7. Ireland
8. Malta
9. Belgium
10. United Kingdom
11. France
12. Spain
13. Slovenia
14. Germany
15. Cyprus
16. Poland
17. Austria
18. Slovakia
19. Estonia
20. Czech Republic
21. Greece
22. Italy
23. Romania
24. Croatia
25. Lithuania
26. Portugal
27. Turkey
28. Latvia
29. Hungary
30. FYR Macedonia
31. Bulgaria
Read more, about household income by country, trust in people and trust in political institutions, by country, etc. here.
via: [1] and [2].
In case you are wondering what are the
etc., on Best City Reviews you will find all kind of interesting surveys.
A very useful website, Cristi. Thank you for sharing.
Women in red drive men crazy
“Men find women in red more attractive, say US psychologists, confirming it really is the colour of romance.The study involved more than 100 men, mostly college undergraduates, who were shown pictures of women and asked to rate how pretty they were.
Men were shown a woman, with some of the pictures bordered in red and some bordered in white, grey or green.
Even though it was the same picture of the same woman, when she was framed in red the men rated her as more attractive than when she was bordered by another colour.
Men were then shown photographs of a woman that were identical except that the researchers digitally made her shirt red in some versions or blue in others. And once again, the men strongly favoured the woman in red.
The researchers then had a group of young women rate whether the pictured woman was pretty. Red had no impact on whether women rated other women as pretty, they found.”
I have to admit I didn’t know men are that vulnerable in front of a woman in red. I find this really funny! :))
“The men also were asked, “Imagine that you are going on a date with this person and have $100 in your wallet. How much money would you be willing to spend on your date?” When she was clad in red, the men said they would spend more money on her.The researchers noted that the colour red did not alter how men rated the women in the photographs in terms of likability, intelligence or kindness – only attractiveness.”
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“Since 1995, Transparency International has published an annual Corruption Perceptions Index ordering the countries of the world according to “the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians”. The organization defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain”.
A higher score means less (perceived) corruption.” (wiki)
“National debt can be categorized as internal debt, owed to lenders within the country, and external debt, owed to foreign lenders.”(wiki)
Top 10:
1 Zimbabwe
2 Japan
3 Lebanon
4 Seychelles
5 Jamaica
6 Egypt
7 Italy
8 Singapore
9 Sudan
10 Greece
See also the U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK <– clik refresh. (via)
