Star Wars universe map

This enormous map shows the planets, regions, and hyperspace routes of the Star Wars universe [Click to enlage].

Source: http://i.imgur.com/TyAi9.jpg

The Jedi Career Path

The Jedi Path (Source: Wookieepedia)

According the book "The Jedi Path", the career of a Jedi is challenging and can lead to many different specializations.

I created the diagram below to illustrate the different career paths of a Jedi (in the time of the Galactic Republic) [Click to Enlarge]:

The Jedi Career Path

If an initiate did not get accepted as a Padawan, he/she could join the Jedi Service corps or leave the order.

If a Jedi Padawan passed the Jedi trials and became a Jedi Knight, he/she could join one of three branches: Jedi Guardian (typically blue lightsabers), Jedi Consular (typically green lightsabers), or Jedi Sentinel (typically yellow lightsabers).

From an educational perspective, the Jedi career path is a good example of apprenticeship learning: An initiate becomes part of a community of practice, mentored by a practicing master who assigns increasingly more challenging tasks, and learns from observing the master in action. Such situated learning is often used in trades, music, martial arts and other sports.

Daily data flow on the Internet

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Bad Science in Science Fiction Movies

io9 targets bad science in science fiction movies, from the instance of sound in space and fire is space to faster than light travel.

Two comments about the chart: It's debatable if Apollo 13 counts as a science fiction movie (See blog on difference between hard and soft science fiction here). Second, 'dodging faster-than-light weapons e.g. lasers' is incorrect. Lasers beams do not move faster than light, as they are light.

Data visualization video with Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling is Professor of Global Health at Stockholm’s prestigious Karolinska Institute and founder of the Gapminder Foundation. He’s a man who revels in the glorious nerdery of stats – and in The Joy of Stats he entertainingly explores the history of statistics, how statistics works mathematically, and how with statistics we can take the massive deluge of data of today’s computer age and use it to see the world as it really is – not just as we imagine it to be.

Enjoy Rosling's latest data visualization video:



Rosling’s famous lectures use enormous quantities of public data to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Rosling became widely know through his great TED talk in 2006.

Google allows users to create their own Rosling-style interactive bubble charts: Google visualization tools.

Is Google a Monopoly? A Historical Perspective [Infographic]

Is Google a Monopoly? A Historical Perspective [Infographic]

Infograph: The true size of Africa

Most people struggle to accurately describe the size of Africa. This infograph illustrates how Africa compares to different countries.

See infograph in high resolution here.

Infograph (by Rob Beeson) distinguishing seven types of gamers

Infographic, entitled The Gamer Brain: The science and the stories behind a Gamer's brain, distinguishes seven different types of gamers, their motivation for playing, and what brain parts are activated.

A Gamer's Brain- By Rob Beeson

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