Aatish Bhatia, a recent physics PhD, describes the forces involved to do a…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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Skateboard physics
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Interracial and same-sex marriage parallels
xkcd doing what xkcd does. Randall Munroe charts a brief timeline of interracial…
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Big chicken
From Vox and research from Zuidhof et al., chickens are quite big these…
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No Ceilings highlights progress towards gender equality
No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative from the Clinton Foundation, aims…
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How search works
Google explained the process of a web search with a scrolling infographic. Might…
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Powers of Ten, Derek Jeter style
You’ve likely seen the classic Powers of Ten video from 1977. It starts…
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Extinctions and animal species at risk
Data journalist Anna Flagg for ProPublica reported on animal species at higher risk…
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Dinosaurs versus airplane
Scientists found the fossils of a giant dinosaur that they estimate was 26…
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Style over function for redesigned choking posters
In many parts of the country, the departments of health require that eating…
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Race distributions of police departments versus residents →
When you compare distributions of race for police departments and for the residents…
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Interactive tool shows impact of terrorism
The Global Terrorism Database, maintained by the University of Maryland, is an open…
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State of birth, by state and over time
We’ve seen migration within the United States before, but Gregor Aisch, Robert Gebeloff,…
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Civilian casualties in Gaza →
Lazaro Gamio and Richard Johnson for the Washington Post cover civilian deaths in…
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Senator John Walsh plagiarism, color-coded →
John Walsh, the U.S. Senator from Montana, is in the news lately for…
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Changing World Cup fans →
Shan Carter and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot have a look at sports…
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Mosquitos: The deadliest animal
This graphic from the Gates Foundation is from a few months ago, but…
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Whaling in Japan explained →
After a ruling by the United Nations International Court of Justice, Japan was…
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Data trails explainer
We produce data all the time, everywhere we go, and this process implies…