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Global Land Temperatures (Interactive)
This project displays over 100 years of NOAA monthly land temperature data collected from over 7,200 climate monitoring stations, with each month creating unique geometric artwork.
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40 maps that explain the world
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.
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Washington Post report details how often security agencies break into other networks
The latest national security related revelation to come from the documents leaked by Edward Snowden is an account of how offensive computer operations work, and how many there are. The Washington Post reports that in 2011, 231 took place with about three quarters of them against "top-priority" targets, which its sources indicate include Iran, Russia, China and North Korea.
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Gender balance on social networking sites
Chicks Rule?
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44 of the world’s 72 tallest buildings are cheating
It turns out that most of the world's tallest buildings are doing the architectural equivalent of wearing platform shoes. That is, they're scraping skies courtesy of dozens—sometimes hundreds—of meters of "vanity height," says a new report (pdf) by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), first spotted by io9. That's the term CTBUH uses...
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Astronomers Create Map of Milky Way's Central Bulge
Two international teams of astronomers have used two telescopes in Chile to produce the best 3D map yet of the central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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Periodic Table of the US Presidents
A visual and vibrant way to present the history of the American Presidency.
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A Timeline of Net Neutrality
This is a timeline of net neutrality from your friends at Public Knowledge. Each entry contains links that should help you better understand the history of net neutrality and what was going on at the time of the action.
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Europe's Youth Unemployment Crisis In One Grim Map
Spain is beaten, perhaps unsurprisingly, by Greece, but Croatia isn't far behind. Italy, Portugal and Cyprus also struggle. On the other side of the scale, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands have youth unemployment rates that are just a fraction of Spain's.
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What the World Would Look Like If Countries Were As Big As Their Online Populations
The Internet we each see every day is an infinitesimally tiny sliver of the whole—the parts we have curated for ourselves, the parts our network of friends and family sends to us, and the sites that we have made parts of our routines.
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Pot Smokers: why are they skinny (infographic)
New research suggests people who smoke marijuana are skinnier than those who abstain.
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Living United States Presidents
Being president takes its toll: 8 out of 44 US presidents have died in office. There have never been more than 6 living presidents at any one time in US history. There are also a few periods where the only living president was the one currently in office, most recently in 1974 during Richard Nixon's administration. Currently there are five living presidents: Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
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The Evolution of Western Dance Music
An Interactive Graphic Showing The Evolution of Western Dance Music Over The Last 100 Years in Under 20 seconds.
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IGN presents: The Museum of Mario
An interactive experience exploring the many eras of Mario.
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Million Lines of Code (Infographic)
Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines of code are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps? Let our data-visualization program your brain.
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A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths
In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans. Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, there will be more than 9 billion. Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software development. He wanted to make those numbers visual.
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2013 World Population Data Sheet Interactive World Map
The 2013 World Population Data Sheet lists all geopolitical entities with populations of 150,000 or more and all members of the UN.
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The world has lost almost six Californias worth of forest since 2000
The world lost the trees on some 2.3 million square kilometers (0.9 million square miles) of land, while trees grew back or were planted on roughly 0.8 million sq km.
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Infographic: Cool Things About The International Space Station
In recent years, there have been few space projects as exciting as the International Space Station, or ISS.
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The 18 Most Corrupt Countries In The World
The most widely used indicator of corruption worldwide.
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