Tag: maps
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Space…the Final Frontier (Until We Manifest Destiny It)
Taking a Friday’s break from diagrams and graphics from Québec, because it’s really just a small part of space. Space, which is presented below. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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City Walls of Québec
Beyond la Citadelle, Québec also enjoys a defensive wall that nearly surrounds Vieux-Québec, or Old Québec. These graphics come from the Barracks Sector, which used to house the Royal Artillery during the British period. The walls in this section of the city date to 1745, but the redoubt in this area goes back to 1712,…
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How to Build a Citadel
La Citadelle de Québec consists of several layers of fortifications that are not discernible to an eye outside the fortification. This has to do with the well-planned angle of the tops of the fortifications. Thankfully, designers said about explaining this through some graphics. While I do not have a great shot from outside the fortress…
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Why Québec Was Important and How it Became English
When I was in Québec I had the good fortune to take photographs of multiple signs and graphics aiming to educate readers about various things. I have spent a bit of my weekend combing through my photographs to see what I can present. The first in today’s post is simply why Québec was so important.…
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Understanding Museum Pieces in French
Yesterday’s piece was from the Musée de la Civilisation à Québec and looked at a bilingual exhibit on Greek and Roman mythology. The museum, of course, had many other exhibits. Today I want to show an interesting bit that explained why the museum, a modern construction dating to the late 1980s, incorporated an 18th century house called…
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Your (not-so) humble author is on holiday in Canada for a couple of days. Thankfully, he is staying away from dogs. Credit for the piece goes to Stats Canada (in no way associated with Statistics Canada).
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Where’s the Beef?
Today I’m enjoying some really good burgers. So via Fastco, today’s graphic looks at cattle, pig, and chicken populations across different regions of the world. In the United States, as you can see in the map here, that dark red spot in eastern Pennsylvania, that has to be Lancaster County. Credit for the piece goes…
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Impact of Climate Change
As someone who likes cooler weather, climate change sucks. Because that generally means warmer weather. Yes, yes, I know it means equally good chances for extreme cold temperatures and in general more extreme weather, but mostly I hate hot weather. So a new report by Risky Business Project, a group led by former New York…
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Where the Rebels are in Eastern Ukraine
Today’s piece is far from ground-breaking or even complex. Friday, the Wall Street Journal published this map to supplement an article about the unilateral ceasefire declared by President Poroshenko in Ukraine. The map highlights the areas effectively controlled by the rebels, the most important the unsecured border. Of course this is just a map as…
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The Cycling Gender Gap
Here in Chicago this week is Bike Week and today Bike to Work Day. So today is a great day for some work from Buzzfeed that highlights the gender gap in cycling (at least in three US cities). To be fair, the data for the statement comes only from urban bike share programmes. But it…