The World According to Evie
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easily my favourite from these guys’ hollywood visualization challenge.
Whoa.
Whoa indeed.
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I’ll come right out and say it: Taxes are awesome.
Yes, awesome. If you care about national values, or the relationship of citizens to their government, or the way we choose to award and discourage behavior, there is nowhere better to start than the gnarled and fascinating world of levies and tax breaks. Tax week gives American families a reason to consider moving to Bermunda, but it also gives me an excuse to spend the day finding my favorite, most controversial, and most illuminating graphs about taxes. Here they are. If you’ve think I’ve picked the wrong ones, or if you’ve got a better chart yourself, leave it in the comment section. I’m rounding up your favorite tax graphs tomorrow.
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Taxonomy of Mythical Creatures in Venn Diagram Form
Let’s get on this, genetic engineers. I’ll contribute some pipetting skills to making a Mermahuataur.
(by preshaa)
neat!
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The Obama Effect: There Were 1.6 Million Tweets About Gay Marriage Yesterday
The first chart shows the rate of gay-marriage tweets per minute yesterday, which peaked at more than 7,000, just four minutes after the president’s own tweet.
The second shows the quantity of tweets referencing gay marriage since Obama’s inauguration. As you can see, yesterday the volume spiked, topping out around 1.6 million tweets, breaking the previous record from the night New York legalized gay marriage (which was, it should be noted, late at night on a Friday).
Read more. [Image: @gov]
OMG I AM TOTALLY SHOCKED BY THIS! /sarcasm
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Humanity’s space vehicles, to scale
Needs more X-Wing. Also, if, like me, you’re all “What the heck is a Skylon?” … here ya go.
(via Boing Boing)
I was SO ‘What the heck is a Skylon!’
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The Story of America’s Most Important Cities, Then and Now
In many ways, the contemporary history of America’s economy is really a story about cities. Metro areas rise and fall with each generation, buoyed or sunk by the industries and trends that support them.
The chart above, from the McKinsey Global Institute, does a beautiful job telling that story.
Read more. [Image: Moody’s Analytics, McKinsey Global Institute]
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The Only Advanced Country Without a National Vacation Policy? It’s the U.S.
There’s no wrong way to celebrate American exceptionalism, but this might not be the best candidate for cheering this July 4th Week: The United States is practically the only developed country in the world that doesn’t require companies to give their workers time off. In Germany, workers are guaranteed a month. In the UK, they’re guaranteed more than five weeks of paid vacation. In the U.S., unique in its class, there is no such guarantee.
Read more. [Image: Rebecca Ray, John Schmitt/ETUI]
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The slow death of the American Dream, in one chart. (via Pew Charitable Trust)
I was just commenting to someone the other day about how you cannot achieve the American Dream anymore…
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The Story of America’s Most Important Cities, Then and Now
In many ways, the contemporary history of America’s economy is really a story about cities. Metro areas rise and fall with each generation, buoyed or sunk by the industries and trends that support them.
The chart above, from the McKinsey Global Institute, does a beautiful job telling that story.
Read more. [Image: Moody’s Analytics, McKinsey Global Institute]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m68sbmpV2R1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
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The Only Advanced Country Without a National Vacation Policy? It’s the U.S.
There’s no wrong way to celebrate American exceptionalism, but this might not be the best candidate for cheering this July 4th Week: The United States is practically the only developed country in the world that doesn’t require companies to give their workers time off. In Germany, workers are guaranteed a month. In the UK, they’re guaranteed more than five weeks of paid vacation. In the U.S., unique in its class, there is no such guarantee.
Read more. [Image: Rebecca Ray, John Schmitt/ETUI]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jmm8ZqtJ1qcokc4o1_500.png)
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ealperin asked: You're writing a Bruce Banner & Tony Stark paperback?!? Can I hug you, right now, or is it too early in the morning for it? :3
Honey I already did! That paperback collects the “Science Bros” and “Widow’s Ledger” arcs of...
