Science Archive:
Water Consumption Sankey
11 Jun 2012It’s nice to see a sankey diagram be used for something besides energy. As some have noted, however, this should have been complemented with population adjusted stats.
Why Do I Feel Thirsty?
8 May 2012This visualization shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of the Earth’s water compared to the size of the Earth. Yikes! That’s a lot of dirt and rock!
Thanks to D. Cramer for emailing me the link!
Update: Scale of the Universe
In: Interactive Science
1 May 2012Cary and Michael Huang have updated their zoomable scale of everything (first seen in 2010). The graphics are nicer and smoother, they’ve replaced the annotations with a scale in the corner, and everything can be clicked on for popup detail. Thankfully, they also now let you turn off the dreadful music. Thanks to Shrub for sending me the link!
Science Fiction to Reality Timeline
25 Apr 2012When scientific advances were first theorized vs when they became reality. After a close viewing I would say whoever wrote this wasn’t particularly well-read, or even a very good geek – a lot of things on both sides are just plain wrong. Great idea. Crappy execution. Anybody want to try their hand at a version that includes da Vinci, Verne, and Heinlein (just for starters).
Apollo Astronaut Assignments
12 Apr 2012Not the most aesthetically pleasing figure I’ve ever seen – but there’s a ton of information crammed in.
MEGA MILLIONS!
30 Mar 2012Seemed timely considering tonight’s $640million drawing: how many times numbers have been picked?
A heatmap of variations from the standard deviation:
DC Terrorist Nuke Attack
27 Mar 2012A government report analyzed the impact of a ground 10-kiloton explosion in Washington DC. Turns out it wouldn’t be quite as bad as you might think (well, compared to what it would have looked like during the cold war when the scenario was multiple megaton air bursts). The full report contains a number of nice map visualizations of the severe fallout threat. The bad news? I live and work within the “severe damage, lifesaving not likely” region. Oh well…
All of History
19 Mar 2012Chronozoom provides an interactive timeline of the known history of the universe. Maybe think of it as a historical Prezi, where you can zoom in on information, images, and videos explaining what we know. The html5 animation was pretty shaky on my Firefox, but it ran nicely on Safari. The behind the scenes story about the team that created this is a good read.
High Costs of US Medical Procedures
In: Science US Economy
6 Mar 2012A recent study compared the cost of procedures across different countries. It’s interesting to me that some people think our “free market” medical system is the best, without realizing that health care services here in no way resemble a market. The related article runs through a number of ways our system is dysfunctional.
Earth Photos
16 Feb 2012Interesting article on how they composite satellite photos of earth into those beautiful globe shots:
While we’re on the subject, below is NASA’s gateway for Astronaut photography of Earth, including some stunning videos:
While in NYC recently I noticed that most of the traffic seems to consist of Taxis. Tom McKeogh, Eliza Montgomery, and Juan F Saldarriag collected Manhattan taxi GPS data and created this beautiful map of Taxi trips over just 24 hours. Nice! (via FlowingData)
How Carbs Make You Fat
31 Jan 2012In my experience, this is very true – whenever I jump off the carb/insulin roller coaster I lose weight very quickly.
I have to say I love the image from the top of the article:
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