Confused about the relationship between the U.K., England, and Great Britain? Want a better understanding of the U.K.’s connection with Ireland, Scotland, and Wales? Curious why so many other countries still have the Queen’s face on their currency? Not quite sure what...
Click Me! Take a look at a map of the world. If it looks like this one, as most do, you will see that Alaska appears larger than Mexico and that Greenland looks about the same size as Africa. In reality, Mexico...
The other day, I came across an article about Jeff Smith, a former Missouri state senator who was recently released from a 1-year stint in federal prison. Years earlier during a failed congressional run, Smith’s campaign violated election law by sending out anonymous...
On an average day, there are roughly 90,000 commercial flights around the world. This stunning animated map displays them all in 4 seconds. Every plane flight in the world over 24 hours Credit: Zurich School of Applied SciencesYoutube version /...
The interactive map below shows the location of 57,000 addresses to come out of the latest Panama Papers data dump. Each address is associated with one or more of the offshore entities (blue circles), named officers (red circles), or intermediaries (green circles)...
If you’ve read many of the posts here, you know I like cartograms, maps that encode information by distorting the size of geographic regions. The last few years have seen an explosion of digital mapping on the web, but for some reason...