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A brief rundown of everything you need to know about the banjo

Info graphic about relative mercury levels in fish.

A quick infographic as we start the second week of play

Ahh, teenage girl cliques. You hate to love them or love to hate them, but either way, you can't stop watching them. They’re the most popular girls in school, and even if they may not be admired by all, most people would at least be curious to know what it's like to be part of such a seemingly impenetrable crew. Wouldn't you be, too? Imagine playing croquet with the Heathers or wearing pink on Wednesdays like The Plastics. Which comes to my next question, which teen girl archetype would ...

This beautifully illustrated infographic (above), designed by South China Morning Post’s graphics director Alberto Lucas Lopéz, shows the most spoken known languages in the world and where they’re spoken by the 6.3 billion people included in the study.

Americans' relationship with sports changes as we grow older. About three-quarters of adults say they played sports as children. By the time people are in their late 20s, only about a quarter do.

The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French’s now-modest leaves one day cast a shadow over the whole tree? Perhaps — but I’m not canceling my plans to attend Spanish practice group tonight.

Speakers (also called loudspeakers) push and pull surrounding air molecules in waves that the human ear interprets as sound. You could even say that hearing is movement detection. So what makes a speaker travel back and forth at just the right rate and distance, and how does that make sound?

Most common errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking - visualized!

Congested roadways are common problems that all drivers have to deal with. Whether commuting to work or enjoying a leisurely drive through the city, it is a problem that causes a great deal of stress and unnecessary frustration.

If you've seen fewer experimental data visualizations lately, it's only because the medium has grown up and gotten a job. A few years ago, the Internet was awash in groundbreaking data visualizations. There was Aaron Koblin's deeply influential map of flight patterns around the U.S. Periscopic's exhaustive, haunting portrait of gun violence in the United States. Jer Thorp and John Underkoffler's Minority Report-like interface for exploring the galaxy.

It can get pretty cold in Wisconsin. That’s probably why the state’s number one import is sweaters and pullovers. Washington, D.C.’s biggest import is medicine, which might suggest that living in the nation’s capital is hard on people’s health.

The United States has only 5 % of the world’s population, but 25 % of its prisoners. The biggest contributing factor to our booming prison population? Drugs, drugs, and more drugs.

From birth to 12 months.

This interactive infographic accurately illustrates the scale of over 100 items within the observable universe ranging from galaxies to insects, nebulae and stars to molecules and atoms.

We kick off our season preview week with some fascinating visual aids.

Take a look at some of the wildest and most extreme weather events ever recorded in human history.

Learn about light separation and different rainbow variations in the Rainbows