Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Scented products with potentially harmful ingredients

For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting:…

Teenage adversity that carries into adulthood

The National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are unique in…

Expanding Rube Goldberg machine that you can edit

From xkcd, a Rube Goldberg machine that keeps on going. Edit a cell…

Interactive timeline of notable people throughout history

This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Based on data from…

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…