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Researchers Pengyu Zhua and Yaoqi Zhang noted in their 2008 paper that “the…

New York University graduate student Josh Begley grabbed 4,916 satellite images of prisons…

Wireless network SSIDs in residential areas are typically left on default router names…

I’m not sure how I missed this, but PBS’s America Revealed, which has…

I’m a little dense when it comes to astronomy, but I think I…

John Nelson of IDV Solutions put 56 years worth of tornadoes on a…

TileMill is a tool that makes it easy to create interactive maps. Soon…

Help is a drug company that offers you less. Less active ingredients, less…

What is Missing? by Maya Lin seeks to raise awareness about the mass…

Nicolas Rapp dives into the patterns and growth of worldwide shipping in a…

Researchers at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University investigate the…

Welcome to Anthropocene:
Scientific concepts like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and planetary stewardship…

I’ve never played Minecraft, but maybe this map showing live server connections means…

Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…

The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain…

The Eatery app by Massive Health lets people snap pictures of their food…

Live flight tracking site FlightAware shows destinations and current routes. It’s everyday stuff…

NPR has a look at weekly drought figures over the past couple of…