Submitted by Goodvaydavaydagood. Thanks!
World's 50 Largest Ports
Interactive graphic showing the East’s economic rise, as well as the huge increase in global trade in since 2000.
Tumblr’s been acting weird for me lately, so I’m not sure if this submission was supposed to be anonymous. If it wasn’t, let me know and I’ll be happy to credit you.
Submitted by Ian Faulds. Thanks!
America League Map
Map of the fictional America League. The League was created by Patrick Cummings (http://pcgdstudios.com/) and shows what American soccer could have looked like today, with a brief history, logo, and kit of each team in the three divisions.
Map created by Ian Faulds (http://ianfaulds.com)
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Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas.
Happy Earth Day, everyone. Take care of it, it’s the only one we’ve got (at least until Rose and The Doctor introduce us to New Earth in a few billion years).
It’s always a good time to celebrate how wonderful our planet is, but this day especially. And there’s no better tribute than this animated adaptation of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot by Ehdubya, right?
And because I love you guys, here’s another animated “Pale Blue Dot”, from ORDER animation:
Happy Earth Day!
It’s so bad that the Czech Embassy in the US had to put out an official statement explaining that Chechen does not mean Czech.
Submitted by MostlyWibbly. Thanks!
Also included in the submission was a link to this site on North American accent distribution, which is also linked to on this (very old) post of my own.
“A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map of America”
Robert Krulwich, NPR:
Look at the center of this map, at the little red dot that marks Kansas City. Technically, Kansas City is at the edge of Missouri, but here on this map it’s in the upper middle section of a bigger space with strong blue borders. We don’t have a name for this bigger space yet, but soon we will.
I would call it, for the moment, “The Part Of America Kansas City Hangs With” because that’s what this map is saying. It’s a new, intriguing way to see our country. This one was built by tracking dollar bill circulation. There’ve been similar maps built from phone call data. The idea here is to show America not as 50 states, but as regions where people do stuff together.
If you’ve ever wondered how the people of the United States organize themselves beyond their several states, take a look at these maps of where their dollar bills travel (top) and who they call on the phone (bottom).
From this blog.
Ouch.
The only truly politically correct joke.
Submitted by Ian from WWU. Thanks!
(Although, since this list is trying to avoid non-ethnic nationalities, I should point out nitpick that neither Scots nor Welsh fit in the list.)
“As a result, the two biggest beer companies on the planet — Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller — now own more than 200 brands based in 42 countries (including 18 in the U.S. alone). We’ve put together this handy guide so you can know whose beer you’re really drinking.”
