Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
Loneliness, life satisfaction, and time
For The Pudding, Alvin Chang examines loneliness through the lens of individual responses…
Twitter slows competitor links
When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…
Evolution of Lego brick colors
Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…
Clock plays a song with the current time in its title
For The Pudding, Russell Samora pulled songs via the Spotify API and made…
Infinity abstractions
Infinity is an abstraction of endlessness, which seems to suggest that it cannot…
Explorable explanation for matrix transformations
Instead of using a bunch of equations to memorize, Yi Zhe Ang visually…
Using cold lake water to cool buildings
There are buildings in Toronto, Canada that make use of a deep lake…
Passenger planes flying too close
Sometimes passenger planes get a little too close to each other on takeoff…
xkcd: Pairwise matrix of what to do in an emergency
xkcd has an informative reference for what do in case of mountain lion…
Hip-hop’s influence on the English language
For The New York Times, Miles Marshall Lewis highlights the etymology of five…
Greenhouse gas from wasting food at home
Almost half of wasted food comes from homes, and almost half of that…
Rarity of songwriters who are women for popular songs
It’s common to see singers who are women, but the people who write…
Taylor Swift pop charts
Taylor Swift has been filling up stadiums across the United States and will…
Hot surfaces, stored energy
In hot places, the ground can heat to higher temperatures than the air,…
Comparing home run in distance different stadiums
In Major League Baseball, a player hits a home run when the ball…
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…