Wired magazine’s ‘Mr. Know-It-All’ offered an interesting explanation of the likely longevity of DVDs answering the question:
‘How long can I expect my DVDs to last?  I hate to think I won’t be able to hand down my Lost box set to my daughter someday’.
Check out ‘Mr. Know-It-All’s’ answer - http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/st_kia_dvd_life/

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I learned about the ‘The Google Public Data Explorer‘ from ResearchBuzz.org.   Very interesting!  Might be of use in the classroom or for doing a research project or paper.
In Google’s own words, the resource subtitled,’Data visualizations for a changing world’:
‘makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate [...]

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