Nov 24 2015
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All over the world, there are people who could live in one country or another. Some of these territorial disputes…
Nov 10 2015
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Television has a well-documented diversity problem when it comes to writing staffs—especially when it comes to race.…
Sep 30 2015
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The third book in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, Ancillary Mercy, comes out next week. Need a refresher course…
Sep 29 2015
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Are men better than women at writing science fiction and fantasy books? The major awards in the field certainly seem…
Feb 26 2015
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Everybody loves infographics. Facts (and assertions) just spring to life when you make them into cool pictures. But…
Feb 2 2015
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Women Destroy the Hugo Awards! How much visibility have women authors received in recent years, versus the past? Livejournal user Kalimac did a statistical analysis of Hugo nominations by gender going back to 1959, and found two spikes — one in the mid-1990s, and one from 2010 onwards.
May 6 2014
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Climate change isn't just coming — it's already here. Just check out these 10 charts that show everything from how…
Jan 20 2014
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This amazing chart follows the rise and fall — and in some cases, rise and fall and rise — of American cities. Peak…
Mar 11 2013
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If you want to see what the Golden Gate Bridge or the delta of the Nile looks like from space with the click of a…
Dec 21 2012
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Data visualization expert John Nelson uses graphic design to illustrate risk. In his latest infographic, he plots…
Nov 1 2012
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Feast your eyes on the first complete evolutionary tree for all known modern bird species. It's exhaustive,…
Oct 23 2012
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We've seen some amazing maps of the lands of Westeros and Essos, from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire…
Sep 5 2012
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If you're one of those people who can't stop obsessing about David Foster Wallace's confounding, dense novel Infinite…
Sep 4 2012
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Walter White's metamorphosis from a mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher into a lethal force of meth-slinging…
Aug 23 2012
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Data visualization expert John Nelson likes to illustrate risk. Usually he focuses on individual events, but in…
Jul 17 2012
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If we've learned anything from the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado, it's that major wildfires are devastatingly…
Jul 6 2012
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You're looking at the latest work of John Nelson, who is becoming well known for combining natural-disaster data…
Jul 6 2012
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It's Friday. For many people the weekend will bring two things: Sunday services and late-night booze-fests. Which…
Jun 20 2012
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Leave it to XKCD to whip up an awesome exoplanet infographic [click to embiggen]. I'd petition for Randall Munroe to…
Apr 20 2012
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On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union conducted an atmospheric test of the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba (Russian for…