Amazing Google Maps mashup displaying global light pollution.
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The U.S. Census explores immigration by the numbers with some fascinating infographics on America’s foreign-born in the last 50 years.
Rewind by a century for a curious contrast, then see David Brooks on why immigrants are essential to the U.S. economy.
Fascinating map of heritage languages in America other than English. The picture is even more interesting with Spanish removed:
Japanese janitor spends seven years drawing an incredibly intricate maze, discovered by his daughter. The best obsessive artwork since Jerry’s never-ending map and French autistic savant Gilles Trehin’s hand-drawn imaginary city, 20 years in the making.
1939 map of the proposed New York City Subway expansion. Compare and contrast with this modernist, ultra-minimalist map of NYC’s subway and the iconic official map by Massimo Vignelli.
The 2013 submarine cable map of the world, reminding us of the striking physicality of the internet.
The twin role played by the skin – protection from excessive UV radiation and absorption of enough sunlight to trigger the production of vitamin D – means that people living in the lower latitudes, close to the Equator, with intense UV radiation, have developed darker skin to protect them from the damaging effects of UV radiation. In contrast, those living in the higher latitudes, closer to the Poles, have developed fair skin to maximize vitamin D production.
A global atlas of skin color.
MIT Sensable City Lab’s Dietmar Offenhuber maps what New Yorkers complain about, based on two years’ worth of 311 calls.
Four centuries of exploration, visualized. Pair with how maps came to rule the world.
(↬ Eric Baker)
The geography of gun ownership in America – to be paired with Stephen King on gun control and violence.
Also see this map juxtaposing firearm laws with gun-related deaths:
Glorious vintage map of a proposed subway system for Los Angeles, 1925, which would’ve taken LA significantly closer to the urbanist ideal of the walkable city.
Fascinating animation of rainfall over a ten-year period (1960-1970) by Bill Wheaton.
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