Watch These Glowing Time-Lapse Videos Of How People Use Public Transit
These animated maps show the ebbs and flows of ridership in three major cities to help understand how our transportation systems work.
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The Women Of Congress, In Fabulous Watercolor Infographics
The sitting Congress has the most women of any in history. Artist Emily Nemens is capturing each of them in paint, and using their likenesses in graphics to show how far we still have to go to bring gender equality to Washington.
This Hilariously Enormous Infographic Shows That Sharks Don’t Kill You, You Kill Sharks
Contrasting the amount of people eaten by sharks annually with the number of sharks killed by humans in a single day puts the deadly ocean predator’s plight in a different context. It’s more sharks than you can possibly prepare yourself for.
See Humanity’s Effect On Earth In These Stunning Time-Lapse Satellite Photos
From growing Vegas to chopping down the Amazon, these Google photos of the last three decades of the Earth from space let you see both human ingenuity and our destructive power.
Mapping The Most Hate-Filled Places In America
The maps from Geography of Hate look at where across the country people are most likely to be tweeting something deeply hateful.
These Crazy Maps Show The Unequal Cause And Effect Of Climate Change
By distorting the world’s countries based on different environmental and economic indicators, we can see an amazingly clear picture of how emissions, resources, and poverty all combine.
This Infographic Is The 21st Century’s Quickest Economics Class
Want to get a good sense of where businesses should be looking in the next 100 years? How about the small chunk of the planet that now holds half the population?
If You Graduated After 1976, You Are Getting Screwed By The Economy
This infographic shows the hard truth for anyone in their late 30s or younger: Everything has been more difficult for you, and it’s just getting worse.
The Deadly Rise Of Sea Levels, In One Simple Infographic
IMAGE: Flooding via Shutterstock
Climate change is making the oceans rise, creating more and more dangerous situations for our coastal cities. See just how much and what we can do to stop it.
Striking Visions Of Our Flooded Future
These renderings of what the Statue of Liberty and the Jefferson Memorial will look like when sea levels rise give you an idea of how the world will change once the Arctic ice melts.
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