Tag: diagram

  • Building New Railways in America

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    I wasn’t expecting this piece to fall into the queue for today, but you all know me as a sucker for trains. So today we have this nice set of small multiples from the Guardian. It looks at…I guess we could call it train deserts. They’re like food deserts, except we’re talking about trains. What…

  • North Korea’s Missile Programme

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    So here’s how this week was supposed to go. I was going to write about the Northern Irish election Monday and then Tuesday was going to be a piece from the New York Times that looked at the public’s concerns facing an incoming president. This piece I was going to save for later. But then…

  • Monday Morning Quarterbacking the Quarterbacks

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    As most of you know, I am a huge baseball fan. I am not so much a huge fan of American football. But I will watch it from time to time. And as a Red Sox fan, that means I will root for the Patriots. So I guess you know how my Sunday night went.…

  • The Trafficante Family

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    For the past few days I was in Las Vegas for a stag party. One of the things I got to see was the Mob Museum in old Vegas. As I am not a gambler, the other forms of entertainment garner my interest, and if you are like me, I would highly recommend the museum.…

  • The Trump Organisation Organisation Chart

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    Well Christmas is over so now for some of us, it’s time to go back to work. Those of you enjoying your time off through the new year, well…enjoy it. Today’s piece is from the New York Times and explores the structure of Donald Trump’s organisation. A second graphic within the piece then details just…

  • Apples to Apples

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    Brendan Barry
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    Happy Friday, all. I like a good mulled cider in winter. And I made one about a week ago. And that is about the only real connection to this graphic from xkcd. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • Escaping—or Not—from the Oakland Fire

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    A few weeks back a fire raged through a communal, creative warehouse in Oakland. The fire claimed the lives of over thirty people. But why? We have the New York Times behind this piece which attempts to explain just what happened that night through a nice mixture of diagrammatic illustrations and photography. Credit for the…

  • The US as an Energy Exporter

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    Several days ago OPEC, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, announced a cut in production to raise the price of oil. This was big news because Saudi Arabia and others had kept the price low in an attempt to undercut the nascent American shale oil and gas industry. Well…that didn’t work. In this article…

  • Daylight Savings Time

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    You clearly didn’t miss this story from two weeks ago, because we all had to change our clocks. But, you might not have thought much about it. Which is fine, because I think there was an election or something a day or two later. Or was I dreaming/nightmaring? Thankfully Andy Woodruff did think about it…

  • Climate Change

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    So this is the last Friday before the election next Tuesday. Normally I reserve Fridays for less serious topics. And often xkcd does a great job covering that for me. But because of the election, I want today’s to be a bit more serious. Thankfully, we still have xkcd for that. The screenshot above gets to…