Beer dates back thousands of centuries, but it was not the beer we…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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Evolution of beer
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Twitter slows competitor links
When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…
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Cooling a city
Tall buildings in dense cities can trap heat and restrict air flow, which…
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Evolution of Lego brick colors
Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…
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Clock plays a song with the current time in its title
For The Pudding, Russell Samora pulled songs via the Spotify API and made…
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Infinity abstractions
Infinity is an abstraction of endlessness, which seems to suggest that it cannot…
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Explorable explanation for matrix transformations
Instead of using a bunch of equations to memorize, Yi Zhe Ang visually…
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Using cold lake water to cool buildings
There are buildings in Toronto, Canada that make use of a deep lake…
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Passenger planes flying too close
Sometimes passenger planes get a little too close to each other on takeoff…
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xkcd: Pairwise matrix of what to do in an emergency
xkcd has an informative reference for what do in case of mountain lion…
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Hip-hop’s influence on the English language
For The New York Times, Miles Marshall Lewis highlights the etymology of five…
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Greenhouse gas from wasting food at home
Almost half of wasted food comes from homes, and almost half of that…
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Rarity of songwriters who are women for popular songs
It’s common to see singers who are women, but the people who write…
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Taylor Swift pop charts
Taylor Swift has been filling up stadiums across the United States and will…
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Hot surfaces, stored energy
In hot places, the ground can heat to higher temperatures than the air,…
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Comparing home run in distance different stadiums
In Major League Baseball, a player hits a home run when the ball…
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Flowchart showing the splits, mergers, and acquisitions of the former Bell Telephone Company
Bell System’s monopoly broke up in 1984 leading to independent phone companies, which…
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Wimbledon grass patterns
This might surprise you, but the grass at the Wimbledon tennis tournament is…