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via [ Chart Wars ] by Alex Lundry

Vision is our most dominant sense. It takes up 50% of our brain’s resources. And despite the visual nature of text, pictures are actually a superior and more efficient delivery mechanism for information. In neurology, this is called the ‘pictorial superiority effect’ [...] If I present information to you orally, you’ll probably only remember about 10% 72 hours after exposure, but if I add a picture, recall soars to 65%. So we are hard-wired to find visualization more compelling than a spreadsheet, a speech of a memo.

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via [ Andrew Sullivan ]

BP didn’t think it important to include [the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill] in the report because, according to the fine print, there’s been “no accurate determination” of how much oil actually leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. And so because there’s no exact measure, they didn’t think they should include it.

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via ProPublica

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What are the risks of an earthquake beneath a reactor near you? This image combines a 2006map by the United States Geological Survey showing varying seismic hazards across the U.S. with locations of nuclear reactors. Reactors in black are active; reactors in blue are proposed sites for the new model known as the AP1000. Probability of strong shaking increases from very low (white), to moderate (blue, green, and yellow), to high (orange, pink, and red). Credit: Kimberly Leonard/Center for Public Integrity.

And this from the USGS

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Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.

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via [ movements.org ] “How To Be an Effective Dissident”

Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department mainstreaming youth dissident culture -

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I wonder if we could use this network for a campaign against the Tar Sands?

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via [ GOOD ]

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via [ Jameyer's Photostream ] The photostream is well worth a look.
Health Care Costs as a percent of GDP vs Year with US Presidential Terms

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[ The Idiotic Building Book ] By Candy Chang

The Idiotic Building is a miniature book about following all of your “idiotic” dreams, as told through the story of New York City’s first skyscraper. At 13 stories tall, the Tower Building seemed so ludicrous to people that they nicknamed it the Idiotic Building and waited for it to fall. It never did, paving the way for greater heights for decades to come. I felt compelled to make the book after hearing its brief mention in New York: A Documentary Film. The 53-page book also ends with a flip-book-like timeline of the world’s tallest buildings through history and serves as a fun introduction to architecture.

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via [ Washington Post ] Dana Priest and William Arkin

via [ Frontline ]

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“2053″ - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.

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via [ The Atlantic ] By Richard Florida

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via [ Mail Online ] By PETER BARBER, Head of Map Collections at the British Library

1) BE ON GUARD! 1921	2) HENRICUS MARTELLUS WORLD MAP, c1490	3) CHINESE GLOBE, 1623
4) WALDSEEMULLER WORLD MAP, 1507	5) GOOGLE EARTH, c2005	6) DESCRIPTIVE MAP OF LONDON POVERTY, 1889
7) 'RED LINE' MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, 1782-3	8) LONDON TUBE MAP, 1933	9) PETERS PROJECTION WORLD MAP, 1974
10) EVESHAM WORLD MAP, c1400

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via [ Radical Cartography ]

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via [ TalkingPointsMemo ]

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via [ visualizingEconomics ]

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via [ FlowingData ]

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UNDER THE PLUME OF PERMITTING

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