Tag: Business Insider

  • Those Are Some Heavy Balls

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    Unfortunately, I don’t subscribe to Business Insider, but I saw this graphic on the Twitter and felt the need to share it. Primarily because baseball will almost certainly stop at midnight when the owners of the teams will impose a lockout (as opposed to players going on strike). And with that baseball will be on…

  • Distinctive Artists by State

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    This Friday’s post comes from Business Insider. And it looks at the distinctive artists by state. And no, I have no idea who Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are. Credit for the piece goes to Paul Lamere.

  • Walking Down the Street

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    Business Insider posted a neat graphic that compared the walkability of a suburban neighbourhood outside Seattle to a dense urban neighbourhood in Seattle. Turns out you can walk a lot more and further in a gridded mile than in a faux-organic sprawl. Credit for the piece goes to Sightline Institute.

  • The Origin of Beer

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    Today’s post comes via Business Insider. They linked to work by reddit user sp07 who mapped out words used for common objects across Europe and then looked at those words by their origin. But of all words, this is probably the most important. Credit for the piece goes to sp07.

  • The Best and Worst States for [Insert Topic]

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    It’s Friday, and mercifully this is a Friday before a three-day weekend. (For all of those who, like me, have a day off coming up on Monday.) So before everyone starts travelling to places here and there and everywhere in between, you best check this series of maps. Why? Because Business Insider has polled us,…