Two-hit wonders are in between the obscure one-hit wonders and famous musicians. Chris…
Nathan Yau
-
Greatest two-hit wonders
-
Science of the loud sneeze, illustrated
Some people sneeze very loudly. For the Washington Post, Teddy Amenabar, Álvaro Valiño,…
-
When the baby will be born
Maggie Appleton is at the point in her pregnancy when there’s a lot…
-
Economic impact of federal health research cuts
The Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMap) estimates the impact of proposed…
-
History of slipping on banana peels
Secret Base offers a much too complete history of slipping on banana peels,…
-
Members Only
Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – March 2025 Roundup
Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from that flew across my desk in March.
-
Minard Day
Charles-Joseph Minard was born on March 27, 1781. Most who know the name…
-
Tariff tracker and economic effects
I guess we’re going to learn a good bit about tariffs over the…
-
Four stages of tariff progressions
Tariff announcements seem to waver in tone and finality depending on the day.…
-
Turn map locations to slide puzzles
Any Map Puzzle by Ahmad Barclay lets you search for a location and…
-
Members Only
Aggregating Time Use Microdata
Being able to work with microdata from the American Time Use Survey, via IPUMS, means you can subset, filter, and categorize how you want. This makes it easier to explore questions.
-
Improved Relative Time, a comparison to many more things in the timeline
You’re familiar with AD and BC, but you probably haven’t heard of AiP…
-
23andMe files for bankruptcy
23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA…
-
Map of daylight gained in spring
Spring officially started last week here in the Northern Hemisphere. For Axios, Jacque…
-
Classic arcade game powered by Wikipedia edits
What if the game Asteroids used Wikipedia edits to drive the volume and…
-
Student basketball transfers are really common
For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Jesse Dougherty analyze the…
-
Members Only
Making of: When You Will Die
This is how the mortality simulation machine gets made.
-
When You Will Die
With absolute certainty, you will die. When will it happen? That is a trickier question. But we can run simulations to explore the possibilities.
-
National history archived through chopstick sleeve designs
For Letterform Archive, designer Angie Wang examines a collection of chopstick sleeves as…
-
Animal sounds in different languages
The purpose of onomatopoeia is to imitate sounds with words, so you might…