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The Complexion Question
A multiracial writer traverses space and time to find the definitive answer to, “What are you?”
Read & DiscussTransparency: The Cities Where Sprawl Makes the Commute the Worst
What creates traffic jams isn't more cars and fewer highways, it's sprawl. See our infographic on the longest sprawl-induced commutes in America.
Read & DiscussTexas as seen by Texans
A Texan's Map of the United StatesOriginal Source: Texas as seen by Texans
Read & DiscussPink Terror: Stephen Hawking
I don't know why but I am totally obsessed with the combination of Stephen Hawking's "voice" (not to mention the substance and content of what he...
Read & DiscussInfographic: The Dragons of Eden Chart Redesign via New York Magazine
In Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte remakes a crude ggraph that first appears in Carl Sagan's The Dragon's Eden. In the original, bunched-up...
Read & DiscussInfographics: How Master Information Designer Edward Tufte Can Help Obama Govern
Late last week, President Barack Obama announced that he would be appointing a gentleman named Edward Tufte to the independent panel that advises...
Read & DiscussInfographic: Ninth U.S. Census 1870
Gainful Occupations and also as Attending SchoolOriginal Source: Infographic: Ninth U.S. Census 1870
Read & DiscussInfographic/Map: Bars vs. Grocery Stores
Wisconsin is America's beer belly. Original Source: Infographic/Map: Bars vs. Grocery Stores
Read & DiscussMap: Antipodes
In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points that are...
Read & DiscussInfographic Downtown Body, ver. 1
From the Ward Shelley exhibition, Who Invented the Avant Garde - and other half-truths. Paintings and drawings that attempt to use real...
Read & DiscussInfographic: The World I.T. & T.
I.T. & T. is a worldwide system of systems.Original Source: Infographic: The World I.T. & T.
Read & DiscussInfographic: The Sun's Neighborhood
The local bubble. The Sun's neighbourhood in the Milky Way.Original Source: Infographic: The Sun's Neighborhood
Read & DiscussInfographic: Soil Maps of Africa
Soil maps are showing the distribution of soils in a given area. The traditional conventional soil map is the end product of a soil...
Read & DiscussInfographic: San Francisco Trafficways, 1948
This comes from "A Report to the City Planning Commission on a Transportation Plan for San Francisco", published in 1948.Original Source:...
Read & DiscussInfographic: Great Britain - Her natural and industrial resources.
Worth a deeper look. Original Source: Infographic: Great Britain - Her natural and industrial resources.
Read & DiscussInfographic: Graphical Representation of Geologic Time
The Earth is very old -- 4.5 billion years or more according to recent estimates. Most of the evidence for an ancient Earth is contained in the...
Read & DiscussMore People Are Going to College
In the last 20 years, the number of people aged 18 to 24 in college has increased fairly dramatically, especially the number attending two-year...
Read & DiscussTransparency: Do Health-care Companies Have to Compete for Customers?
Opponents of the public option claim that by being forced to compete against the government, health care companies will be at an unfair...
Read & DiscussMeasuring Obama's First 100 Days
A few months ago, we published one of our GOOD Sheets on the first 100 days of all the presidents since FDR, examining the major actions taken...
Read & DiscussEarth Day Mixtape Playlist
Today we celebrate the only known place in the universe where life exists. Because of everything you're already planning on doing to give a...
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