In writing my new article about The Nine Nations of North America, I started thinking that ideas to break up North America are often put forward. Thus, I created a page to allow everyone to chime in with their ideas about how to divide North America. Share your thoughts (on the page) about North America. Should it be divided (and if so, how?) or should it remain as it is?

GlobalPost has published a listing of the world's fattest countries based on WHO data. Unfortunately, number one on the list, American Samoa, isn't a country at all but a territory of the United States. Nonetheless, their incredible 99.5% obesity rate is worth noting. Following American Samoa, the actual world's fattest country is Kiribati, with a whopping 81.5% obesity rate. The United States follows with 66.7% obesity. Germany is not far behind at 66.5%.

Law enforcement officials have ruled that the U.S. Census Bureau worker who was found dead hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky in September committed suicide. The Bureau released a statement yesterday, "The death of our co-worker William Sparkman was a tragedy and remains a loss for the Census Bureau family. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends."

Take a look at this impressive animated county-level map of unemployment rates in the United States from January 2007 to September 2009. Watch as the unemployment rate really expands around mid-2008.