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You’ve probably heard various renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner, and sometimes singers put a little extra something in the anthem. A bit of flourish. Some attitude. For The Pudding, Jan Diehm and Michelle McGhee quantified that extra something into what they’ve dubbed a Diva Score.
Out of the 138 versions they scored, the highest belong to Chaka Khan at the 2020 NBA All-Star game and Patti Labelle at the 2008 World Series.
Posted by in diva, Infographics, Music, Pudding
Your body goes through a special process to digest spicy food. The sting, the sweating, the sting afterwards. For the Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz, Aaron Steckelberg, and Szu Yu Chen illustrate with a factory metaphor and a personified chicken wing.
Tags: digestion, spicy, Washington Post
Posted by in digestion, Infographics, spicy, Washington Post
There are competitions where people complete jigsaw puzzles as quickly as they can, and some teams take it very seriously. Because of course. For the Washington Post, Chris Alcantara shows the times and strategies of the quickest puzzlers.
I would not be good at this.
Tags: puzzle, Washington Post
Posted by in Infographics, puzzle, Washington Post
Sébastien Matos used a straightforward view to show the evolution of the scrollbar, dating back to the Xerox 8010 Information System from 1981.
Tags: evolution, scrollbar, Sébastien Matos
Posted by in Evolution, Infographics, scrollbar, Sébastien Matos
For Numberphile, Simon Anthony explains the Phistomephel Ring. The shape always contains the same numbers as the corners do. Math magic!
Tags: math, Numberphile, Sudoku
Posted by in Infographics, Math, Numberphile, Sudoku
A refrigerator-sized panel popped off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 during the ascent of an Alaska Airlines flight. Reuters illustrates what that panel is for, other airlines with the same configuration, and where they travel.
Posted by in Boeing, Infographics, Reuters, safety
By Reddit user Pitazboras, a movie timeline for Oppenheimer with running time on the x-axis and chronological time on the y-axis. I haven’t seen the movie, so I cannot speak to the accuracy. But it seems confusing.
All Christopher Nolan movies probably deserve a timeline graphic. See also: a flowchart for Inception dream levels.
Tags: Oppenheimer, timeline
Posted by in Infographics, Oppenheimer, Timeline
NYT’s The Upshot looked at 424 holiday movies released by the Hallmark and Lifetime networks since 2017. Like most forms of entertainment, the movies look identical from a zoomed out view. There’s a protagonist female who feels lost, finds her way and love in the process.
Get in closer and you see the nuances. Sometimes a couple has to save a candy shop instead of a bakery.
Posted by in holidays, Infographics, movies, Upshot
Neo Lu was scammed into a labor camp. In an effort to escape and expose the operation, he began to send information to The New York Times from within.
Mr. Lu said he pleaded to be freed, but his captors refused. They put him to work as an accountant, and over months he tracked millions of dollars in illicit income and managed their day-to-day expenses.
While he was still inside the camp, Mr. Lu contacted The New York Times. He sent hundreds of pages of financial records and photos and videos of the site, hoping to expose the operation at some point.
I was probably slack jawed most of the time while reading this. The graphics and photos about the inner workings and how the scam works, dubbed “pig butchering,” move the story forward.
Tags: labor camp, New York Times, scam
Posted by in Infographics, labor camp, New York Times, scam
Kurzgesagt illustrates the scale of the tiniest of things and the biggest of things by zooming in and out, but unlike videos before, they focus on human scale by comparing everything against it at each step.
You’ve probably seen the Powers of Ten, which demonstrates the scale of things by zooming farther and farther away from the universe and then back in to the microscopic level.
However, once people fall out of view, you lose a sense of magnitude. It’s just this is really big and that is really small. With focus on the individual, the Kurzgesagt rendition keeps the scale close as if you’re standing right next to it instead of traveling to an unreachable place.
Tags: Kurzgesagt, scale
Posted by in Infographics, Kurzgesagt, scale