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The Honshu Tsunami 13 Mar 2011 | 07:50 am
Via Jeff Masters, an animation of the Japanese tsunami's propagation across the Pacific basin: The abstract yet brute physicality of the phenomenon makes it all the more horrifying to think about the...
The Arab League 1 Mar 2011 | 03:44 pm
An interactive map from The Economist lets you click on member-states of the Arab League for relative scores on democracy, corruption, and press freedom, as well as overall stability: You know what c...
The 2010 Census: The Ridiculously Detailed New York Times Map 7 Jan 2011 | 05:16 am
(Ahem: Based on 2005-2009 American Community Survey data, for the sticklers out there.) A racial profile of the United States, block by block, courtesy of the New York Times: As you can see, this map...
The 2010 Census: Population and Congressional Apportionment 5 Jan 2011 | 05:16 am
Hey look, I have a blog! Guess I'll post something. Yep, it's census stuff, from here. Roll over states for their particulars. I think it mostly speaks for itself - the Rust Belt continues to Rusts, ...
Global Peace Index 2010 22 Sep 2010 | 12:31 am
Vision of Humanity is out with their 2010 Global Peace Index, a rating of the "state of peace" in 249 nations around the world: Each of 149 countries are ranked on a five-point scale for 23 indicator...
A Map Animation of the Atomic Age 11 Aug 2010 | 01:57 am
Via Boing Boing and The New Yorker, a map animation that shows every detonation of a nuclear bomb until 1998, by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto: Says The New Yorker: It is the sort of set of pictures...
Russia's Portentous Summer 9 Aug 2010 | 09:27 am
Jeff Masters says, "one of the most remarkable weather events of my lifetime is unfolding this summer in Russia" where the current heat wave is pretty much entirely off the historical charts. For comp...
Human Development and the US-Mexico Border 5 Aug 2010 | 11:15 am
Andrew Sullivan links to a map from the 2009 Human Development Report, which uses HDI, the Human Development Index, as a measure of the general level of development for jurisdictions on both sides of ...
First Half of 2010 is the Warmest on Record 16 Jul 2010 | 01:47 pm
June 2010 was the hottest June on record, 1.22°F above average. So was the period of April-June, 1.26°F above average. And January through June - the entire first half of 2010 - were also the hottest ...
The Coming Heat Wave Wave 13 Jul 2010 | 06:12 am
The weather where I live - a large East Coast metropolis somewhere between Bridgeport, CT and Trenton, NJ - was notably warm last week, as it was for much of the East Coast. At Dot Earth, Andrew Revki...
