1+ week, 6+ day ago  (98+ words) Jerry Gretzinger started a map of a fictional city in 1963 with eight by ten-inch panels. Then he just kept going, took a break for a couple decades, and then resumed the work. Its execution, in acrylic, marker, colored pencil, ink,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (101+ words) The pandemic tested the strength of many relationships. Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, examined who stayed together and who did not over that time period. Divorce and separation were more common than usual. At the end, you can explore the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (110+ words) Flowing Data Proposed arch in the path of air traffic The current proposal for the arch sets the height at 288 feet above sea level. The New York Times mapped air traffic in the Washington, D. C. area to show why that's an…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (68+ words) Flowing Data What $1 trillion buys Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire with the Space X initial public offering today. For Bloomberg, Ben Steverman, with illustrations by Tim Enthoven, provides a quick ridiculous overview of what $1 trillion gets you. See…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (72+ words) Flowing Data Solar passes coal for US electricity Another recent flip: Based on estimates from Ember, monthly solar-generated electricity reached an all-time high in May and coal reached an all-time low in April. It looks like it won't be long…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago  (131+ words) This is issue No. 392 of the Process, where we make charts that pull focus, because letting the data speak is for chumps. I'm Nathan Yau. This week, we focus on when there is a sudden change or flip in the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (121+ words) It's going to be hot in North America as the World Cup 2026 starts this week. But the level of heat will vary over time and city, which means teams will experience varying levels of heat depending on when and where…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (170+ words) Companies use seismic airguns in the Gulf of Mexico to find oil and gas deposits. The airguns deliver air blasts in the water, and the time it takes for an echo to return can be used to estimate metrics on…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (109+ words) Traffic has been rising extra quickly these past couple of years. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) it's mostly from automated AI bots scraping all they can get. From Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare: Welp, that…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (110+ words) LLM speed is commonly expressed as tokens per second, which is kind of meaningless for the uninitiated. Mike Veerman made a more intuitive view for what various speeds look like. More tokens per second means faster generation, which you can…...