Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Visual guide to airfoils

Bartosz Ciechanowski is at it again with an in-depth explainer that makes heavy…

Defining the greatest albums of all time

Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums…

Tiny chip manufacturing, visually explained

Microchips have gotten tiny. Like smaller than a red blood cell tiny. Financial…

If we didn’t have leap years

For CNN, Amy O’Kruk and Kenneth Uzquiano asked what would happen if we…

Interactive LED basketball court

During the 2024 NBA All-Star weekend, the basketball court was essentially a giant…

Diva-ness of national anthem renditions

You’ve probably heard various renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner, and sometimes singers put…

Your body as a processing plant, digesting a hot wing

Your body goes through a special process to digest spicy food. The sting,…

Speed puzzling times and strategies

There are competitions where people complete jigsaw puzzles as quickly as they can,…

Evolution of the scrollbar

Sébastien Matos used a straightforward view to show the evolution of the scrollbar,…

Mathematical feature in all Sudoku puzzles

For Numberphile, Simon Anthony explains the Phistomephel Ring. The shape always contains the…

Boeing panel that blew off during flight

A refrigerator-sized panel popped off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 during the ascent…

Oppenheimer movie timeline

By Reddit user Pitazboras, a movie timeline for Oppenheimer with running time on…

Breaking down the holiday movie formula

NYT’s The Upshot looked at 424 holiday movies released by the Hallmark and…

Tracking operations in an online scam labor camp

Neo Lu was scammed into a labor camp. In an effort to escape…

Scale of all the things, compared to you

Kurzgesagt illustrates the scale of the tiniest of things and the biggest of…

Inflation high, cost of living no good

Usually inflation is more of a slow thing that you don’t notice so…

Failed community notes to stop misinformation on Twitter

Twitter has a Community Notes feature that attempts to flag posts that contain…

Toddlers and stochastic parrots

For The New Yorker, Angie Wang draws parallels between toddler learning behavior and…