There was an explosion in Beirut. It was big. How big? Marco Hernandez…
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Scale of the explosion in Beirut
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Comparing U.S. coronavirus case rates to other hot spots
The numbers are high here in the United States, and at this point,…
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A million dollars vs. a billion visualized with a road trip
A million dollars. A billion dollars. The latter is 1,000 times more than…
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Scale of Bloomberg net worth
While we’re on the topic of Mike Bloomberg’s money, here’s another view from…
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Big Money You Can Relate To (The Process #76)
This week, a few projects went up on the internets about money and spending, each with different goals and approaches. In this issue of The Process, we look at each more closely.
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Federal budget scaled to per person dollars
For The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui scaled down the federal budget…
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Billionaire’s spending scaled to your net worth
We hear about billionaires spending millions of dollars on ads, acquisitions, etc. It…
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Scale of Australia bushfires shown with unit charts
Outside of Australia, it can be a challenge to get a grasp of…
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Scale of space browser
I always enjoy me some scale of space graphics. Neal Agarwal made an…
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All of the plastic bottles purchased in a day, Eiffel Tower for scale
Millions of plastic bottles are purchased every day around the world. What does…
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Scale of Star Wars characters and ships
It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode…
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Scale of tens
I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer:
Anyone need a…
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Real-time speed of light from Earth to Mars
Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:
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Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
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Endangered species that could fit in a train car
There are endangered species where the remaining few in the world could fit…
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Scale of the California wildfires
The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…
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Scale comparison of wildfires
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
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Mass exodus at human scale
Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
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Measuring things with ships
We might be in an age of big data, but people have been…
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Solar System in a bottle
From Little Planet Factory, a Solar System in a bottle made to scale:…