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Watch Buoys Dance With the Flow in This Ocean Current Visualization
The mesmerizing white dots illustrate the movement of more than 17,000 research buoys.
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Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820
sdsdsds From 1920 to 2013, a total of 79 million people from around the world have emigrated to the United States and become lawful permanent residents. This animated map visualizes them all, each moving dot representing 10,000 new arrivals. Through time the sources of migration follow a clear trend through the world. Initially, the bulk […]
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What's in a Flag's Design?
A new infographic by a pair of Danish designers has everything you never knew you wanted to know about the world’s flags.
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The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you
How to tell two radically different stories with the same dataset.
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The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters.
For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death. The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham, Ala. — live nearly as long as their middle-class neighbors or have seen rising life expectancy in the 21st century. But in some other parts of the country, adults with the lowest incomes die on average as young as people in much poorer nations like Rwanda, and their life spans are getting shorter.
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The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever
Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much s**t for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.
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Interview With a Modern-Day Independent Mapmaker
It’s easy to forget that detailed maps can be made by just one person, and that paper maps aren't a thing of the past. Tom Harrison, a California-based cartographer, explains how he collects information and makes his maps, and why he doesn’t hire anyone to help him.
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Fascinating maps reveal what our cities sound like
How researchers mapped the spectrum of urban sound.
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All 2.3 Million Species Are Mapped into a Single Circle of Life
Lineages of all known species on earth are finally pieced together.
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Interactive Map Lets You Track How 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Newspapers Covered Any Topic
This interactive map, put together by the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the University of Georgia's eHistory initiative, uses the Library of Congress' database of historical newspapers, Chronicling America, to track frequency of keywords in newspapers and visualize the results across time and space.
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The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities
Since 2014, at least 49 deaths have been precipitated by taking a selfie. Breaking down the data behind them yields an interesting story.
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This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes
Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trade’s beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th...
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How You Will Die
So far we’ve seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let’s put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age.
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The rise and decline of Wikipedia?
The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline (PDF)
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Image Shows How Dolphins See People
What does a submerged man look like to a dolphin? A new image reveals what a marine mammal saw. By Jennifer Viegas.
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Here's a map of all the mass shootings in 2015
As details surrounding the San Bernardino, California, shooting gradually emerged Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama told CBS News that the U.S. has “a pattern now of mass shooting in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.” The mass shooting at a social services agency in San Bernardino left at least 14 dead and 17 others wounded. It is also the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since Adam Lanza opened fire at Sandy...
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What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II
The results of the poll illustrated above by the useful Twitter account @HistOpinion were published in the pages of Fortune magazine in July 1938. Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed at the time believed that the United States should raise its immigration quotas or encourage political refugees fleeing fascist states in Europe — the vast majority of whom were Jewish — to voyage across the Atlantic. Two-thirds of the respondents agreed with the...
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How Gun Traffickers Get Around State Gun Laws
In California, some gun smugglers use FedEx. In Chicago, smugglers drive just across the state line into Indiana, buy a gun and drive back. In Orlando, Fla., smugglers have been known to fill a $500 car with guns and send it on a ship to crime rings in Puerto Rico. In response to mass shootings in the last few years, more than 20 states, including some of the nation’s biggest, have passed new laws restricting how people can buy and carry guns.
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Worldometers - real time world statistics
Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health.
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World Air Quality Index
Air pollution in the world: real time air quality map.
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