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Air Traffic Worldwide
15 Jan 201424 hours of global airplane traffic.
The Solar System
16 Dec 2013A very well executed videographic. Well paced with clear visualizations.
Pandemic Mapping
16 Dec 2013Interesting research and simulation of how pandemics propagate in the modern world: (via FastCoExist)
If All the Ice Melted
5 Nov 2013Hypothetical mapping of what coastlines would look like if all the ice in the world melted, raising ocean levels by 216 feet.
DC Gunfire
4 Nov 2013A map of gunshots detected in Washington DC since 2009 using triangulated sonic sensors. The system allows police to be quickly dispatched to within yards of where the guns were fired (though the related article doesn’t go into much detail about whether that leads to catching the shooters).
How a Car Engine Works
In: Internet/tech Science
16 Sep 2013Beautiful annotated animation of how gas engines work. Check out the full size version by Jacob O’Neal.
Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations
In: Science
22 Aug 2013A beautiful classic from 1944:
What Lands Did Europeans Really Discover?
14 Aug 2013Nice work by Bill Rankin over at Radial Cartography. He tries to map out lands that were really uninhabited prior to discovery. You’ll notice they were mostly small islands.
If you like maps and haven’t browsed that site before, you should. Lots of cool projects:
A table of projections:
Comparison of subways in the USA:
Make a personalized celestial calendar:
Its Crowded Around Here
In: Science
14 Aug 2013Below is a map of the orbits of 1400+ asteroids as collected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Thankfully, none of these potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are expected to intersect the Earth’s orbit in the next 100 years, since they are all at least 460 feet in size and would hurt.
What’s Hurting Us
In: Science
5 Aug 2013From the New England Journal of Medicine comes this chart of world injuries. The differences between regions are interesting, but beg explanation. Also, the article fails to give a good definition of the indicators (Years of Life Lost, Years Lived with Disability?), and you have to wonder how accurate the data is for many regions.
Meteorite Sightings (1913-2013)
26 Jul 2013Meteorite fireballs witnessed from 1913. I’m not sure what is gained by putting this on a map. Also, since this is just eyewitness accounts, it suffers from population density bias.
Animated Wind Map
6 Jun 2013A very cool real time animated map of wind.
Also some historical snapshots, like Hurricane Sandy:
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