United Nations Data Are Now Online
The United Nations creates a few days ago an online service with all the statistical databases of the organisation. I think that this is a valuable tool for every research, project, study etc.
Over the past 60 years UN has collected valuable information for every country and now every one of us has the chance, via the provided search engine, to gain access.
At this moment the UN Data (as it is called) has over 55,000,000 entries. I made a test search for “Greece” and it gave me 748 entries! One of them was about the number of mobile phone users. In 1993 there were 48,000 users, in 1998 2,047,000 and in 2004 11,044,232! This is quite a number considering that Greece’s population is 10,706,290 (July 2007 est.)
Interested? Then go to 
http://data.un.org
2008: The year of Feta cheese, Kermit the frog and potatoes
It seems that we got a lot to look forward to for 2008 according to Nature. According to the famous journal various organisations and countries have declared 2008 to be many things. Lets take a look at the headlines:
-United Nations declared 2008 to be many things such as the international year of potato (suggestion by Peru), international year of sanitation (2.6bn people are with out it), the international year of planet earth (which lasts for 3 years) and the international year of languages.
-Amphibian Ark (a zoo community) declared 2008 to be the year of the frog (to prevent the extinction of 500 species)
-International Coral Reef Initiative declared 2008 (second year running) to raise coral reef awareness and their importance
-Virgin Galactic declared 2008 the year of the spaceship (hoping to make it a reality)
-Greece declared 2008 to be all about campaigning the well known fact that Feta cheese is Greek (apparently some Danish and UK companies dont think so when it comes to money)
-Australia declared 2008 to be the year of boy scouts (why?)
-England declared 2008 the year of the gardens
-European Union declared 2008 the year of intercultural dialogue
So…you got many things to do for 2008
potatoes
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