Measuring The Universe
November 10, 2010 –A living infographic created with blank museum walls, multitudes of willing art lovers, and a box of Sharpies! Yeah, Roman Ondák’s Measuring The Universe is kinda like that:
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Burgers Aren’t Forever
November 9, 2010 –Culinary raconteur J. Kenji Lopez-Alt fingers moisture as a key ingredient of food decay, sets the scientific method on high, and flame broils the popular Internet myth that a McDonald’s hamburger will never rot:
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An Epic Ass-Kicking
November 8, 2010 –After six days of agony, I’ve finally reached the last stage of post-election grief: acceptance. So, as a coda to my recovery, I’ll come right out and say it: the Democrats received an ass-kicking of epic proportions!
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Crowds And Clouds
November 5, 2010 –Visualization guru Aaron Koblin – the creative force behind Flight Patterns, The Johnny Cash Project, and that Radiohead video – might have the sexiest portfolio in the biz.
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Reverse Mercatorisms
November 3, 2010 –Mercator shrinks the Equator! Thus protest Kai Krause and a billion Africans, upset that the Mercator projection – used by Google Maps and found on countless grade school walls around the globe – makes their vast continent look positively puny compared to the rest of the world.
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Pork Politics
November 2, 2010 –Happy Election Day! Later, should you encounter a particularly persnickety ballot matchup, ask yourself:
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War Dead
November 1, 2010 –Canadian designer Kamel Makhloufi’s pair of stark graphs effectively visualize the human toll of the Iraq war. Each pixel represents a death:
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This Election Tweets
November 1, 2010 –On this eve of the midterm elections, immerse yourself in online buzz with the NY Times’ Twitter tracker: a sea of circles, one per major candidate, that change size as their Tweets ebb and flow.
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