25 January 2019

Hurricane Prediction ~ Forecast Quality Progress

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Richard B. Alley, Kerry A. Emanuel, Fuqing Zhang write in Science about Advances in weather prediction ... "In recent decades, adva...
14 January 2019

Greening the Desert ~ Alt Perspectives...

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Three documentary examples of rehabilitating large-scale damaged ecosystems...
09 January 2019

Disaffection with Democracy ~ Warning Signs...

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Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk in The Signs of Deconsolidation in the Journal of Democracy share evidence of a global pattern of disa...
08 January 2019

LA Timelapse Map ~ Infra, Nets, Pop, Econ, etc!

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The Getty Research Institute shares timelapse maps of Los Angeles Instrastructure, Networks, Settlements, Population, Economy, and Conflict...

Human Life Indicator (HLI) ~ Alt-Index to HDI...

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WEForum shares the Human Life Indicator (HLI) proposed by Sergei Scherbov, Simone Ghislandi, and Warren Sanderson as an alternative measur...

Manhattan's Densities ~ Rise & Fall 1800-2010

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Nice timelapse animation of Manhattan's Densities changing over two centuries based on data collected by Shlomo Angel and Patrick Lamson...
06 January 2019

Sugi Circles ~ Japanese Tree Spacing Test

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Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1973 engaged in... “experimental forestry” and one of the experiments was to try...
04 January 2019

Pacific Islands ~ Mapping Oceanic Territories...

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03 January 2019

Global Growth Rates ~ GDP Forecasts 2019...

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The Economist forecasts GDP worldwide in 2019 ...
02 January 2019

Buffett's Bazillions ~ Berkshire's Investments...

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Visual Capitalist groks zillionaire Warren Buffett's investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway !

Emergent Megacities ~ VC Visualizes thru 2100

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Visual Capitalist animates Top 20 Megacities by 2100 ...
01 January 2019

Artistic + Technicalities ~ Gropius on Bauhaus...

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Hear about the Bauhaus from Walter Gropius himself... Plus here's some context with this Bauhaus docu...
31 December 2018

Mega Tsunami Happen ~ Simulation of Past &...

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Given the recent Indonesian disaster with Krakatoa Junior collapsing with consequent tsunami , it's worth looking at other examples of t...

Cultural Map ~ World Values Survey Infographic

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The World Values Survey measures traditional values versus secular-rational values plotted against survival values versus self-expression v...
29 December 2018

ISU Launch Poster ~ Pat Rawlings Space Art!

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Wow, I just found Pat Rawlings gallery pages which includes his poster art for the first summer of the International Space University at M...

One WTC Timelapse ~ EarthCam's 11yr Build-vid

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After all these years I finally watched the One World Trade Center build video, a timelapse by EarthCam...
26 December 2018

Cosmic Wonderland ~ NASA's Composite Beauty!

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NASA aesthetically photo-composited data from Chandra, ROSAT, Spitzer, and SuperCosmos observatories to make this Cosmic Wonderland image!...
25 December 2018

World Mapping ~ Qualities of Life & Governance...

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The Economist's Democracy Index scores 167 countries... "On a scale of 0 to 10 based on 60 indicators across five broad categorie...

Small Farmer Tools ~ Simple Efficient Solutions

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This past few weeks I've discovered both Richard Perkins , Making Small Farms Work , and Curtis Stone , the Urban Farmer . I've bee...
22 December 2018

Golden Gate ~ Building This Epic Infrastructure!

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Arguably the most amazing piece of civil engineering infrastructure -- or certainly a Top 10 together with Roman aqueducts, the Suez & P...