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ImpactWhat Does It Look Like When You 3-D Print Music?These sculptures were made by a printer as it screeched out classics with its motor.
ImpactVisualizing 100 Years Of Climate DataThis is what a century’s worth of climate data looks like when funneled into an interactive, color-coded map.
ImpactCharting The Ever-Rising Numbers Of American ObesityThis infographic shows what’s happened to our waistlines from 1995 to the present.
ImpactTake A Graphic Stroll Through Your Own Personal Meta DataBuried in your thousands of old emails is a picture of you and your social network. A new tool called Immersion will show it to you.
ImpactA World Of Only Airports Is A Strikingly Different PlaceA new mapping project uses only airport runways as geographic reference points, and gives a picture of a world where mobility isn’t available to everyone.
ImpactMapping The Climate Change Deniers Making Our LawsThis map shows where climate-denying legislators come from–and how many weather-related disasters their states have faced in the past few years.
ImpactThe Shameful Delays In Getting Help To Injured VeteransReturning veterans are being forced to wait an incredibly long time to get benefits from the government. This graphic shows the scope of the problem.
ImpactMesmerizing Maps Of A City’s Moving BusesThese maps of how fast the buses drive through Boston offer a beautiful look at the city’s transit system.
ImpactThis Map Shines A Light On Every Single U.S. Drone AttackObama is making changes to how the U.S. drone program operates, but the past of the program is still shrouded in secrecy. This map helps clarify exactly what our killer technology is doing overseas.
ImpactThe Women Of Congress, In Fabulous Watercolor InfographicsThe sitting Congress has the most women of any in history. Artist Emily Nemens is capturing each of them in paint, and using their likenesses in graphics to show how far we still have to go to bring gender equality to Washington.
ImpactThis Hilariously Enormous Infographic Shows That Sharks Don’t Kill You, You Kill SharksContrasting the amount of people eaten by sharks annually with the number of sharks killed by humans in a single day puts the deadly ocean predator’s plight in a different context. It’s more sharks than you can possibly prepare yourself for.
ImpactSee Humanity’s Effect On Earth In These Stunning Time-Lapse Satellite PhotosFrom growing Vegas to chopping down the Amazon, these Google photos of the last three decades of the Earth from space let you see both human ingenuity and our destructive power.
ImpactThis Infographic Is The 21st Century’s Quickest Economics ClassWant to get a good sense of where businesses should be looking in the next 100 years? How about the small chunk of the planet that now holds half the population?
ImpactStriking Visions Of Our Flooded FutureThese renderings of what the Statue of Liberty and the Jefferson Memorial will look like when sea levels rise give you an idea of how the world will change once the Arctic ice melts.
ImpactWhere North Korea’s Maybe-Nuclear Missiles Could Land, VisualizedHow worried should you be about North Korea? It probably depends on where you live, as these maps of the range of their various missiles show.
ImpactWatch Income Inequality In Real Time, As ExxonMobil’s CEO Out Earns You By A LotHow much more money does a doctor make than a minimum wage earner? What about Kobe Bryant? This infographic shows the vast disparities in America’s wages.
ImpactPeople with disabilities have been disproportionately affected by the economic impact of COVID-19
Co.DesignTurning trash into treasure: London Design Biennale features gorgeous pieces made from waste