Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
1870 Census Maps
10 Mar 201054 maps and charts. The level of detail and sophistication is pretty damn impressive for the period. (again from Radical Cartography — can you tell I’m digging through that site? Love it.)
Water use in Edmonton during the Olympic gold medal Hockey Game.
137 Years of Popular Science
In: Culture| Maps| News Media| Science
9 Mar 2010Popular Science magazine has partnered with Google to make available it’s entire archive. Keyword searches bring up an entire month/issue with your search result highlighted. It looks they have OCR’d every page, making for some cool search results. (via)
For example, a search of “map” brought up this map of US science sites from 1967:
and this first air-map of the north pole from 1931:
“Chart” brings up radiological diagrams from 1950 (among many many others)
Gay Partnerships in USA
In: Culture| Politics| Source: Economist
9 Mar 2010From The Economist:
The Porn Industry
In: Culture| US Economy
8 Mar 2010Summary of the porn industry. I get sent a lot of these. must be the name 
And a video of similar info from GOOD (probably NSFW, depending on where you work):
US Age Pyramid?
8 Mar 2010I think this would have been better un-nested.
Mobile Pie Chart Hell
In: Culture
8 Mar 2010
Australia got the Criminals and USA the Puritans
In: Culture| US Economy
4 Mar 2010
What Are People Buying Online?
In: Culture| US Economy
3 Mar 2010
Stone Age Writing
2 Mar 2010Similar symbols found across the globe raise questions about how writing originated. Some of the findings will appear in a new Smithsonian exhibition. Related New Scientist article.
Spam Spam Spam
2 Mar 2010From the New Scientist.
Six spam WordClouds:
History of the World in Objects
In: Culture| Interactive
2 Mar 2010From the BBC. Use the slider on the right to scroll through history, then click on an object to see it’s significance; tons of filters on the left. (via)
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