556 people have gone to space. In an article on their changed perspectives,…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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All the astronauts and their spaceflights
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Mikaela Shiffrin pulling away for gold
Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal in PyeongChang with a fraction of…
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Visual introduction to the Fourier Transform
One of my least favorite electrical engineering courses in college was on signals…
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Where constituent input ends up
When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…
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Olympian mechanics
Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…
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Olympians in your living room through augmented reality
Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…
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Scissors congruence
The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…
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Hand-drawn how-to instructions using zero words
Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…
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Is there something wrong with democracy?
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…
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Porn traffic before and after the missile alert in Hawaii
PornHub compared minute-to-minute traffic on their site before and after the missile alert…
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Compare your fears against reality
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…
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Spotting rip currents
Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to…
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Most popular GIFs used to express emotion in different countries
People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…
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Getty Center fire resistance
Fire spread over Los Angeles, but the famous art works in the Getty…
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Tax calculator that considers where you live
Here’s a different look at tax cuts and increases from Reuben Fischer-Baum for…
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Stopping a nuclear missile fired at the US
I hate that this feels like something civilians should know. Bonnie Berkowitz and…
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Every tax cut and increase in House Republicans’ bill
The House Republicans will vote on a tax bill soon that adds about…
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Math to fix gerrymandering, explained in comic
Gerrymandering doesn’t sound like an especially sexy topic, but it’s an important one…