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Visualization of flying into a black hole
Assuming you were still alive flying into a black hole, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center visualized what the views might look like. In this visualization of a flight toward a supermassive black hole,...
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Flight turbulence on the Singapore Airlines flight, visually explained
Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person dying of a heart attack. Reuters explains what happened on the flight and more generally, what happens during...
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California property taxes, through the Painted Ladies houses
The Painted Ladies houses, which includes the house from the 1990s sitcom Full House, is a set of seven houses in San Francisco. Six of them are basically the same, but the annual property taxes are...
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About a dog
For NYT, Sam Anderson, with illustrations by Gaia Alari, tells the story of his family dog Walnut. The storytelling and animation format work well to depict the love of a pet. For some reason, someone...
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Hockey player tracking projected on ice for live watch party
During the Dallas Stars away games during this year’s NHL playoffs, fans could attend watch parties at the home arena. The team used projectors and player tracking to show movements on the ice in...
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Changing climate zones of major cities
A global map of climate change can make a few degrees of rising temperature seem trivial. It just doesn’t look like that much. So, for the Pudding, Derek Taylor used forecasts from a study by Hylke...
View ArticleShrinking down to the size of an atom
In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things, Epic Spaceman starts at human size and shrinks down ten times every 21 seconds. Tags: Epic Spaceman, scale, small
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1,300 allegations against New Hampshire Youth Development Center
In a collaboration between NHPR and the Pudding, Jason Moon and Russell Samora break down the allegations by time and category. The descriptions of child abuse are hard to read and listen to, but the...
View ArticleDesigning EV sounds
Vox explains the process of designing artificial car sounds for electric vehicles to make EV rides safer. Electric vehicles are quiet, which is nice while you’re driving, but complete silence can also...
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Genealogy of technology and power from the 1500s to present
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires. Calculating Empires takes Donna Haraway’s provocation literally that we need to map the “informatics of domination.”...
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Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films
Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our future, Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, examines the shift in settings, themes, and endings over the past eight decades. Pixel art adds depth...
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Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting
The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to reconstruct the scene of the rally. They show four lines of sight: from the location of the gunman and three countersniper teams. You...
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Clean energy from fracking
We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington Post, Harry Stevens illustrates how a company aims to convert geothermal heat to usable electricity with zero emissions....
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How Olympic athletes combat the heat
A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather, which is a challenge when it’s really hot and you have to run as fast as you can for a couple of hours. Bloomberg illustrates the...
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Illustrated guides to Olympic sports
Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the Olympic sports. (Trampoline is tucked into the Gymnastics category in case you’re looking.) For each sport, there’s a...
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Making illicit fentanyl
The process of making fentanyl might not be as complicated as one would hope. However, you might be surprised to know that illegal producers aren’t always consistent and can be sloppy, which is why...
View ArticleQueuing systems and crowd engineering
There’s a science to getting thousands of people to wait in line without things getting out of control. The Wall Street Journal spoke to crowd expert Brett Little to explain the different types of...
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Emotional overlap Venn diagrams
I’m hearing murmurs that the Venn diagram is making a comeback. Six Seconds made a pair-wise matrix to show the emotions that stem from combining the emotions from the Inside Out movie. Tags: emotion,...
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Scale of dragons from House of the Dragon
Dragons are pretty big, I guess. (Please let me know if you know who made this.) Update: See the original by Siosin (thanks, Charlotte). Tags: fiction, House of the Dragon, scale
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Best NBA players in the Olympics, by country since the 1992 Dream Team
In 1992, when the Dream Team dominated basketball in the Olympics, the best players in the NBA were all from the United States. The league has grown more international since then. For Sportradar, Todd...
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