Greatest Inventions ~ Plotting Ingenuity & Impact!

Raconteur surveyed scientists, tech journos, etc to identify the Greatest Inventions of All Time and thence infographically plot them!

2050 ~ Envisioning Future Humanity & Planet...

Various visions imagining us in 2050...

Sambany ~ Health Empowered via Mercy Ships!

One of the latest beneficiaries of the Mercy Ships floating hospital organization (and one of my favorite examples of flexible & fast floating solutions) is Sambany, a 55yo burdened by an 8kg facial tumor. Not only is his treatment story epic, but so too is the essential life-affirming mission of MS... See more on the MS channel.

Rainworks ~ Water-Activated Urban Art!

Peregrine Church makes Rainworks urban art only seen when wet! Interesting variant on Reverse Graffiti!

Systems of Government ~ Worldmap of Schemes

Some global map porn spotlighting Systems of Government...

Cultural Map ~ Values Differences @ Global Scale

Brandon Ambrosino at Vox spots the Ingelhart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World...

Migrant Flows ~ Plotting Source & Volume Into US

Ria Misra at io9 spots The Last 200 Years Of U.S. Immigration in One Chart by Natalia Bronshtein of Insightful Interaction...

Big Cat Scanner ~ Leibniz's Zoological Imaging!

MissC spots the Big Cat Scan -- a Toshiba Aquilon CX CT-scanner -- at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research... Let's hope the anaesthesia doesn't wear off prematurely;-)

R.I.P. Lee Kwan Yew ~ Singapore City-Statesman

Strongman Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore has passed away at age 91. Leader of the modern city-state, Lee's achievements are perhaps best summed up by his autobiographical book title From Third World to First and the facts from this Economist infographic...

Dudley Square ~ Time for Neighborhood Revival...

In her Globe piece Developer reflects Dudley Square’s renaissance, Meghan Irons writes of long-time developer Kenneth Guscott who...

"Came of age when Dudley Square was still at its peak [...] At its prime, Dudley Square was the second-busiest commercial district in Boston, after downtown. And it was the epicenter of the black community. But as Guscott turned 15, the 1940s swept in a period of uncertainty, leaving Dudley’s residents clinging to a prosperity that would dissipate. Now, as Guscott enters his 90s, his deep connection to Dudley Square offers a glimpse of the triumphs, demise, and promised resurgence that consumed Roxbury’s main commercial district and the people living nearby."

Fascinating arc of transformation over time.

Composing Movement ~ Kurosawa's Kinematics!

Emerson Rosenthal at the Creators Project spots Composing Movement by Tony Zhou about Akira Kurosawa's Cinematic Kinematics!

Self/less ~ Mind Transplant & Longevity Film...

Watch Self/less trailer! Reminds me of Heinlein's I Will Fear No Evil...

Sawyer ~ Rethink's Latest Manufacturing Bot...

Creative Process ~ Ira G on Persistence & Work!

MIT colleague Ed Boyden spots Ira Glass on the Creative Process...

Invaders from the Sea ~ Ships Shift Stowaways!

gCaptain spots Invaders from the Sea...

"The International Maritime Organization partnered with renowned BBC Wildvision to produce this short film [...] offering unique insight into an important environmental issue: the transfer of harmful organisms in ships’ ballast water."

Snow More ~ Boston Weather Records Buried...

We need to normalize snowfall by a "persistence factor" because otherwise any old flake counts, even if it instamelts. Enduring snowy shit, that's the real deal, and the only thing worth counting...

Religio-Political Plot ~ Moralism vs Statism...

Jack Jenkins at ThinkProgress shares The Politics Of Every Major U.S. Religion, In One Chart...

"A new chart, compiled by Tobin Grant of the Religion New Service and using data from Pew Research’s 2008 Religious Landscape Survey, takes a stab at answering this question by visually illustrating the general political beliefs of religious people on two policy questions."

Moto Japan ~ Cool Pimp Wheels Tokyo Sport;-)

Whoa, cool wheels-crazy Japan! Bling, LEDs, speed, motor roar, ridiculous Akira-esque lifestyle of pimptastic moto-speedsters;-) Here's Behind the Scenes too... Women equally crazy about all this...

Rosling @ CGIU ~ A Fact-Based Worldview!

Thanks to TYWKIWDBI for spotting Gapminder's Hans Rosling sharing stats and speaking at CGIU about Pre-Conceived Notions and a Fact-Based World View...

Do It For Denmark ~ Pro-Growth Promo;-)

Jeff Beer at Fast spots Do It For Denmark conception campaign;-)

RePlan It ~ Jock Brandis & Co on Indiegogo!

Support our MIT Development Ventures inspiration and CNN Hero Jock Brandis and his crew at Full Belly and fellow documentarians on Indiegogo RePlan It!

Old NYC ~ Vintage Footage, Geocoded...

Very cool oldest motion pictures of NYC with geocoding...

RailRing ~ SuperChannel of NL Train Sites!

The best Dutch train sites band together as RailRing!

Going Dutch ~ Good NL Promo Filmpje;-)

Ok, it's pure promo, but also nice survey of all things Dutch;-)

Apple Watch ~ Ive Overviews Design Features...

Apple's Jony Ive on soon to be released Watch...

Drone Racing ~ Prototyping the Next Robot Wars!

Wow, Drone Racing -- so obvious and also so cool!

City Lights ~ Colin Rich's LA Timelapse...

Colin Rich's Trilogy of Light final chapter -- City Lights!

Motion Compensation ~ MacG Heavy Ship Crane

gCaptain's Rob Almeida spotlights MacGregor's 3-Axis Motion Compensated Crane Aboard the Siem Moxie. This is like Bose's "noise compensating" headphones or "bump canceling" active car shocks but for a heavy-lift crane on a ship moving in 3 meter waves!

More Fun Foods ~ Humorous & Inspiring Eats;-)

Gerrymandering Explained ~ Political Mapping...

WashPo's Christopher Ingraham explains Gerrymandering w/ clever infographic...