24 June 2017

Global Urban Footprint ~ Hi-Rez Auto-mapping...

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TR spots Global Urban Footprint Revealed in Unprecedented Resolution ... "What’s needed is a way of mapping urban areas from space a...
17 June 2017

R.I.P. Ootje Oxenaar ~ Designed NL Banknotes...

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Sad to hear that Ootje Oxenaar, the graphic designer of beautiful Dutch money and RISD instructor, has passed away at 87. I particularly li...
15 June 2017

Global Incomes ~ Distribution Change over Time...

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Thanks to Daniel Mitchell from International Liberty for spotlighting a great chart by Professor Max Roser of Oxford using Gapminder data...
10 June 2017

Wealth & World-Class ~ Universities & Growth...

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Thanks to a WEForum post for spotting infographics created for Times Higher Education by Ben Hennig, an associate professor at the Unive...
29 May 2017

History of War Deaths ~ Global Rates since 1400

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Oxford's Max Roser spotlights Global Deaths In Conflict Since the Year 1400 which shows the rate of warkills over the past ~600 years.....
22 May 2017

Canals ~ Early Disruptive & -ted Infrastructure!

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Bill Warner spotlights how Before the Internet, There Was the Middlesex Canal ... "When you take a look at the history of the Middles...
09 May 2017

R.I.P. Peter Spier ~ Epic Dutch Inspiring Illustrator

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Richard Sandomir in the NYTimes shares the sad news that inspirational illustrator Peter Spier has passed away at 89 from congestive hear...
25 April 2017

Making of Metropolis ~ Silent-Era Urban SF Epic!

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The Making of Metropolis -- and its painstaking restoration story! Incredible special effects! Changing our futurevision!
17 April 2017

K V Switzer 261 ~ 50 Years of Women's Marathon!

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Today marks 50 years of women racing in the Marathon. It's a great story ...
15 April 2017

R.I.P. Eugene Lang ~ Financed "Dream" Tuition!

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James Hagerty in the WSJ writes of Eugene Lang's passing at 98 and his spontaneous philanthropic promise at a Harlem elementary schoo...
04 April 2017

New Amsterdam ~ US x NL @ NYC...

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How the Dutch influenced NYC and USA via New Amsterdam...
04 March 2017

R.I.P. Paul Kangas ~ "The Best of Good Buys!"

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Alas, Paul Kangas , the Walter Cronkite of business broadcasting has passed away. He started the broadcasting of business info. Indeed,...
25 February 2017

Global Pie ~ $74T Economy in One Chart...

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Jeff Desjardins at Visual Capitalist shares The $74 Trillion Global Economy in One Chart ... "The full circle, known as a Voronoi Diag...
20 February 2017

R.I.P. Hans Rosling ~ Edutainer Extraordinaire

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Pancreatic cancer has laid low Hans Rosling , the Gapminder co-founder and my favorite public health statistician and data edutainer extra...
07 February 2017

MIT Media Ventures ~ Thurs 10a-12n Spring '17

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UPDATE: Due to MIT's snow closing, our kickoff class was Thursday morning 10a-12n February 16th, 2017 in Media Lab E14-633. Our MIT M...

CityScope Kendall ~ Model Innovation District

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I'm co-teaching CityScope Kendall Square class this Spring 2017 together with MIT Media Lab colleague Kent Larson and team, starting ...
24 January 2017

MIT Nuts & Bolts of New Ventures ~ IAP 2017

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On Tuesday night, 24 January 2017, Joe Hadzima and I kick off the latest incarnation -- the 28th year (!!) -- of our MIT Nuts & Bolts o...
03 January 2017

Bird Migration ~ Seasonal Flight in Americas!

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Audubon spotlights a full season of bird migrations visualized! "A new animation from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology tracks 118 spec...
03 December 2016

Quakelapse ~ Decade of Tectonic Data Worldmap

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NOAA's worldmap of global earthquakes timelapse of decade... You can view (and interact with) this mapped onto an Earth globe at Scie...
02 December 2016

Mega Commutes ~ US Regional Movements...

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Data from 130 million commuters reveal US ‘megaregions’ ... "Previously megaregions have been typically identified by an interpretative...