Examining How We Measure Our Lives
Commentary, critiques, and observations on information design and data visualisation
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Read on…: Tiffany
Happy Friday, all. We made it through another week of Covid, vaccinations, asteroids, and all that pleasant stuff. So let’s end with an upbeat note. Over on YouTube there’s a channel I have long enjoyed, CCP Grey, who creates videos about, well lots of things, but sometimes really interesting historical, geographical, and political topics. This week he released a video…
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Threats from Little Bodies Inside and Outside
Read on…: Threats from Little Bodies Inside and OutsideOf course the inside threat are those little bodies of coronavirus causing Covid-19. We cover them a lot here. But there are also threats from little bodies outside, way outside. Like asteroids impacting us. And that was the news yesterday when NASA announced improved data from a mission to the asteroid Bennu allowed it to refine its orbital model. And…
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If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Cut Your Carbon Emissions
Read on…: If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Cut Your Carbon EmissionsEarlier this morning (East Coast time) the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN’s committee studying climate change, released its latest review of climate change. This is the first major review since 2013 and, spoiler, it’s not good. I’ve read some news articles about the findings, but I want to critique and comment upon some of the graphics contained…
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Get Your Shots
Read on…: Get Your ShotsI’ve heard a lot about vaccine hesitancy and resistance lately and I mentioned this on Monday. Subsequently, I thought I would try to make a graphic to try and help people understand where some of these excuses fit on the spectrum of rational to irrational—with claims of people being magnetised off the chart in the land of kooky. But I…
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You Thought That Was All China Was Doing in Its Western Deserts?
Read on…: You Thought That Was All China Was Doing in Its Western Deserts?Yesterday I wrote about some new ICBM silos China is building in its western desert. These things clearly interest me and so I was doing a little more digging when I found this even more recent article, this one from the BBC about an entirely different ICBM silo field that China is building in another western desert. In terms of…
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It’s the Big Things That’ll Kill You
Read on…: It’s the Big Things That’ll Kill YouWe can move from the microscopic things that will kill us to the very big things that will kill us. Nuclear missiles. Because satellite photography from late June indicated that China is presently building over 100 ICBM silos in its western deserts. China has long had nuclear weapons, but has also long kept its arsenal small, compared to the two…
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Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
Read on…: Covid-19 Vaccine HesitancyWhere is it coming from? I spent a good chunk of last week talking with people about reasons why people are not taking the vaccines for Covid-19 despite the fact they’ve been proven safe, been proven effective, and are free. I have heard a number of excuses in person—perhaps the subject for another post. But those are all anecdotal stories,…