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Simulations show what happens when a car and a truck hit a person
Trucks getting bigger means visibility declines and crashes become more deadly, which is a terrible deal for pedestrians. The New York Times illustrated how bad it has gotten using simulations and a...
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How synthesizers work, a visual guide
Shri Khalpada, for PerThirtySix, breaks down musical sounds into math to illustrate how synthesizers work. Interactive graphics let you play with the parts and hear how the sounds change. This would’ve...
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Fake Polymarket winnings
If you’re in the right pocket demographic of a short-form video algorithm, you might have seen someone place a large bet on Polymarket that looked like a big payout. The problem: it might have just...
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Turning the flag algae green
The renovations to the Washington reflecting pool were supposed to make the water appear “American flag blue.” However, millions of dollars later, paint is peeling and the pool is filled with algae....
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Scale of a one-trillion-dollar pile of money
Going with the old school pile o’ money, NBC News illustrated the scale of the SpaceX IPO valuation against the Statue of Liberty, something that we know is quite large. In the above, each block...
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Weakened relationships through the pandemic
The pandemic tested the strength of many relationships. Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, examined who stayed together and who did not over that time period. Divorce and separation were more common than...
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Proposed arch in the path of air traffic
The current proposal for the arch sets the height at 288 feet above sea level. The New York Times mapped air traffic in the Washington, D.C. area to show why that’s an issue. Among maps that show...
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What $1 trillion buys
Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire with the SpaceX initial public offering today. For Bloomberg, Ben Steverman, with illustrations by Tim Enthoven, provides a quick ridiculous overview of...
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Overlap of endangered whale calls with sonic blasts
Companies use seismic airguns in the Gulf of Mexico to find oil and gas deposits. The airguns deliver air blasts in the water, and the time it takes for an echo to return can be used to estimate...
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What LLM speed looks like when generating output
LLM speed is commonly expressed as tokens per second, which is kind of meaningless for the uninitiated. Mike Veerman made a more intuitive view for what various speeds look like. More tokens per second...
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Comparing SpaceX IPO against past offerings
For Bloomberg, Demetrios Pogkas, Jennah Haque, and Kiel Porter show the projected scale of SpaceX’s initial public offering later this month against the current top 100 listings globally. Rising...
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Arguing for the billionaire wealth tax
For NYT Opinion, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman make a case for a billionaire wealth tax in California. The billionaire class in California includes roughly 250 households, a mere 0.001 percent of...
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K-Pop growth before the global phenomenon
For the Pudding, Minji Kim and Eunice Lee wrote about the growth of K-Pop through the lens of their friendship. Minji and I first met when we were nine years old, at a Korean language school that...
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Sports gambling ads everywhere
For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill, Jonathan O’Connell, and Luke Connors built an AI tool to estimate the ubiquity of sports gambling ads in broadcasts and in arenas. For its analysis, The Post...
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Comparison of Trump and Putin visits to China
Trump visited China, and then Putin visited a week later. Reuters compared the two visits from various angles. There are more important differences in this piece, such as the airport welcome and the...
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Daily schedule of seniors caring for seniors
An aging population means more seniors 65 years and older are taking care of other seniors. This grows more challenging with disabilities, financial concerns, and mobility. The Straits Times looked at...
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History of Eurovision song themes and lyrics
The Eurovision Song Contest is in its 70th year. Every year, each country submits an original song and performers vie for the top spot. Giuseppe Sollazzo plotted 1,795 songs from the past 70 years to...
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Getting oil to the gas tank from the Strait of Hormuz
For the New York Times, Agnes Chang and Pablo Robles illustrate the journey from the Strait of Hormuz to the gas tank. The oil starts in a tanker, waiting to move through the strait, and the journey...
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Visualizing history within a grid
For the Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes and Adam Green visit Antoni Jażwiński’s Polish System, which charts space and time in a grid layout. The Polish System — which almost anticipates Piet...
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Increasing costs in the beef supply chain
Beef prices keep going up a noticeable amount in grocery stores. For Bloomberg, Ilena Peng, Denise Lu, and Stephanie Davidson charted how increasing costs in the supply chain feed into the dollar...
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