Archive for March, 2010

Top 100 living geniuses

Friday, March 19th, 2010
1= Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist 27
1= Tim Berners-Lee (British) Computer Scientist 27
3 George Soros (American) Investor & Philanthropist 25
4 Matt Groening (American) Satirist & Animator 24
5= Nelson Mandela (South African) Politician & Diplomat 23
5= Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist 23
7= Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist 22
7= Steven Hawking (British) Physicist 22
9= Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect 21
9= Philip Glass (American) Composer 21
9= Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician 21
12= Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician 20
12= Li Hongzhi (Chinese) Spiritual Leader 20
12= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20
15= Brian Eno (British) Composer 19
15= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19
15= Daniel Tammet (British) Savant & Linguist 19
18 Nicholson Baker (American Writer 18
19 Daniel Barenboim (N/A) Musician 17
20= Robert Crumb (American) Artist 16
20= Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher 16
20= Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers 16
20= Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher 16
20= Geoffrey Hill (British) Poet 16
25 Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player 15
26= The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader 14
26= Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker 14
26= Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japanese) Roboticist 14
26= Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment 14
26= Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet 14
31 Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist 13
32= Flossie Wong-Staal (Chinese) Bio-technologist 12
32= Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player 12
32= Prince (American) Musician 12
32= Henrik Gorecki (Polish) Composer 12
32= Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist 12
32= Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist 12
32= Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist 12
32= Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist 12
40= Elaine Pagels (American) Historian 11
40= Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology 11
40= Gary Becker (American) Economist 11
43= Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer 10
43= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10
43= Bill Gates (American) Businessman 10
43= Philip Roth (American) Writer 10
43= James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone 10
43= Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist 10
49= Brian Wilson (American) Musician 9
49= Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter 9
49= Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist 9
49= Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician 9
49= Richard Branson (British) Publicist 9
49= Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist 9
49= Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer 9
49= Meryl Streep (American) Actress 9
49= Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer 9
58= Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer 8
58= John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator 8
58= Shunpei Yamazaki (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist 8
58= Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist 8
58= Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian 8
58= John Goto (British) Photographer 8
58= Paul McCartney (British) Musician 8
58= Stephen King (American) Writer 8
58= Leonard Cohen (Canadian) Poet & musician 8
67= Aretha Franklin (American) Musician 7
67= David Bowie (British) Musician 7
67= Emily Oster (American) Economist 7
67= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7
67= Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone 7
72= George Lucas (American) Film maker 6
72= Niles Rogers (American) Musician 6
72= Hans Zimmer (German) Composer 6
72= John Williams (American) Composer 6
72= Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher 6
72= Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist 6
72= Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor 6
72= Robin Escovado (American) Composer 6
72= Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist 6
72= Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer 6
72= Stan Lee (American) Publisher 6
83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5
83= Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist
83= Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet 5
83= Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist 5
83= JK Rowling (British) Writer 5
83= Ken Russell (British) Film maker 5
83= Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer 5
83= Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist 5
91=. Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans 4
91= Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch 4
91= Alastair Hannay (British) Philosopher 4
94= Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist
94= Thomas A. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer 3
94= Dolly Parton (American) Singer 3
94= Morissey (British) Singer 3
94= Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury 3
94= Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer 3
100=. Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker 2

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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
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2010 Quality of Life Index

Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Read the 2010 Quality of Life Index article.

Click here to learn how we calculate the scores

Country Cost of Living Leisure & Culture Economy Environ

ment

 Freedom Health Infra

structure

 Risk & Safety Climate Final Score
France 55 81 69 72 100 100 92 100 87 82
Australia 56 82 71 76 100 87 92 100 87 81
Switzerland 41 86 79 78 100 95 96 100 77 81
Germany 54 82 71 83 100 89 90 100 79 81
New Zealand 62 82 65 77 100 88 70 100 84 79
Luxembourg 44 76 85 77 100 87 66 100 83 78
United States 56 79 67 62 92 78 100 100 84 78
Belgium 41 83 66 64 100 88 96 100 86 78
Canada 62 76 69 62 100 84 85 100 69 77
Italy 56 85 63 74 92 90 62 100 87 77
Netherlands 48 71 69 67 100 87 92 100 75 77
Norway 39 60 89 76 100 90 89 100 60 77
Austria 41 86 68 87 100 85 68 100 76 77
Liechtenstein 44 80 100 65 100 80 44 100 79 76
Malta 63 70 53 84 100 89 52 100 95 76
Denmark 33 88 69 84 100 86 72 100 78 76
Spain 56 68 63 75 100 90 65 100 79 76
Finland 39 93 66 68 100 81 76 100 76 75
Uruguay 60 72 52 72 100 76 64 100 93 75
Hungary 58 76 48 77 100 84 77 93 76 74
Portugal 55 72 52 74 100 86 56 100 83 73
Lithuania 63 68 48 81 100 80 56 100 79 73
Andorra 52 74 61 60 100 85 58 100 82 73
Czech Republic 48 78 52 74 100 82 78 100 67 73
United Kingdom 30 82 65 72 100 84 80 100 66 73
Argentina 61 67 52 71 83 82 56 100 91 72
Slovenia 53 69 56 74 100 72 56 100 83 72
Greece 52 64 58 70 92 84 64 100 79 72
Monaco 44 85 66 59 92 80 48 100 89 72
Sweden 0 94 68 75 100 82 92 100 68 71
Chile 60 67 54 71 100 73 73 100 59 71
Estonia 60 82 44 77 100 75 64 86 74 71
Costa Rica 62 64 53 78 100 78 48 93 79 71
Panama 62 63 52 77 92 72 74 93 69 71
Poland 51 74 52 72 100 80 64 86 76 71
Japan 24 92 51 71 92 89 64 100 84 70
Croatia 58 68 48 77 83 76 52 93 95 70
Brazil 64 58 65 71 83 73 59 83 82 70
Ecuador 72 60 45 93 75 69 45 86 96 70
Latvia 59 75 40 86 92 75 64 86 73 70
Ireland 28 81 60 70 100 79 72 100 65 70
Korea- South (Rep of) 39 82 56 68 92 81 52 93 83 69
Slovakia 48 60 52 71 100 79 68 86 77 69
Bulgaria 61 69 47 78 83 78 48 86 80 69
Cyprus (Greek) 48 65 58 62 100 85 36 100 76 68
Mexico 63 65 50 68 75 76 57 79 92 68
Israel 39 83 61 68 92 85 36 71 84 67
Iceland 36 85 40 74 100 86 48 86 74 67
Bermuda 25 57 89 41 92 73 64 100 66 66
Saint Kitts & Nevis 64 44 45 72 100 70 54 100 57 66
South Africa 59 60 45 75 83 57 44 86 98 66
Dominica 65 39 44 90 100 68 36 100 57 65
Romania 51 74 48 75 83 65 56 79 71 65
Cayman Islands 61 39 65 26 92 86 64 100 57 65
Moldova 69 86 45 75 50 67 56 71 70 65
Colombia 68 58 48 72 58 72 44 71 92 64
Taiwan 50 47 58 75 92 68 51 79 68 64
Bolivia 80 61 45 75 67 59 52 57 83 64
Macedonia 66 64 45 72 67 62 44 79 79 63
Barbados 35 78 48 72 100 62 40 100 57 63
Mauritius 65 61 47 74 92 72 32 93 42 63
Namibia 66 75 42 46 83 41 64 86 74 63
Belize 60 47 50 80 92 55 52 79 62 63
Paraguay 76 60 44 64 67 71 36 86 68 63
Albania 60 61 45 74 67 74 36 71 89 63
Bosnia-Herzegovina 73 65 45 70 58 67 40 71 82 63
Bahamas 28 67 56 74 100 62 32 100 65 63
Ukraine 49 61 42 74 75 68 60 71 78 62
Grenada 55 53 44 75 92 66 48 86 57 62
Singapore 51 71 68 39 42 74 69 100 39 61
Antigua & Barbuda 54 56 53 74 83 50 32 100 57 61
Turkey 49 60 45 68 67 76 40 86 73 61
Dominican Republic 58 47 45 81 83 69 40 79 57 61
Seychelles 59 58 48 78 67 52 36 100 55 61
Bhutan 80 28 58 83 42 27 40 100 79 61
Peru 66 53 50 70 75 56 32 64 80 60
Jamaica 58 44 40 77 75 71 52 79 57 60
Nicaragua 66 57 42 70 67 66 36 71 68 60
Botswana 70 40 45 78 83 35 44 79 65 60
Honduras 70 32 42 70 67 66 40 71 83 60
Suriname 65 44 47 78 83 59 59 64 39 60
Puerto Rico 55 43 45 42 100 72 36 100 45 59
Tunisia 63 61 45 68 17 73 36 86 85 59
Brunei 65 60 69 100 25 52 44 79 25 59
Malaysia 70 71 48 62 50 68 44 86 24 58
El Salvador 63 43 42 65 75 70 36 79 57 58
Guatemala 61 39 44 74 58 65 32 71 84 58
India 65 39 55 68 75 60 44 64 47 58
Venezuela 54 67 48 84 50 66 32 71 52 58
Cuba 63 75 44 77 8 79 56 57 63 57
Trinidad & Tobago 30 36 53 78 83 63 32 100 57 57
French Polynesia 44 56 45 33 92 60 44 100 55 57
Guyana 63 61 42 77 75 56 44 64 39 57
Tonga 70 25 40 65 50 66 36 100 63 57
Mongolia 68 60 47 70 83 56 52 64 14 57
Nauru 86 8 47 64 100 55 0 100 38 56
China 63 59 69 54 8 67 40 57 79 56
Georgia 56 38 40 80 50 62 48 57 79 56
Ghana 61 28 44 67 92 40 40 71 62 56
Maldives 63 63 45 36 50 66 32 100 49 56
Armenia 64 53 45 81 33 46 44 64 72 56
Lesotho 70 38 44 41 75 30 36 71 93 55
Martinique 63 36 47 38 92 64 4 100 57 55
Jordan 56 60 45 59 33 80 28 71 68 55
Philippines 69 60 42 68 58 46 36 71 45 55
Kuwait 46 60 74 42 50 70 56 71 18 55
Kiribati 75 13 42 57 100 54 12 100 38 55
French Guiana 49 33 47 29 92 54 66 100 28 55
Belarus 65 44 50 75 8 51 52 64 77 54
Thailand 68 65 44 61 42 63 32 71 43 54
Russia 29 67 53 71 42 71 48 57 64 54
Zambia 56 43 44 71 67 19 40 64 89 54
Lebanon 68 56 50 65 42 85 36 21 61 54
Palau 59 47 48 70 100 52 8 86 18 54
Malawi 60 40 45 68 50 32 40 64 89 54
Morocco 43 35 44 67 42 63 36 93 78 54
Samoa (Western Samoa) 55 22 39 68 83 68 46 79 35 54
Swaziland 56 51 42 81 17 27 40 86 91 54
Bahrain 59 67 61 64 33 43 32 86 30 54

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