The true size of Africa.
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World Wildlife Fund - The leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species.
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Engineers have nearly completed a rescue shaft.
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This is the controversial practice of inserting reversed speech messages into music recordings. Backmasking can be found in recordings by The Beatles, Electric Light Orchestra, Ozzy Osbourne and others. It has led to various accusations and trials claiming the messages can influence behaviour, including a trial over backmasked messages in music by Judas Priest, although the case was eventually dismissed. Following that publicity, several bands used backmasking to poke fun at the accusations and inserted odd or amusing messages into their recordings. Have a look at this infographic for some famous backmasked messages.
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This information visualization analyzes the relationship between the finishing times of marathon runners and temperatures within the past ten years of the New York City Marathon.
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Home improvement upgrades for geeks.
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Census of Marine Life Maps and Visualization. The Census of Marine Life is a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans. The world's first comprehensive census of the past, present, and future of life in the oceans is being released in 2010.
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Microsoft’s FUSE Labs latest project if focused on allowing users to get insight into Twitter real-time data, by providing a series of gadgets which are capable of enabling the dynamic visualization of information shared by the users of the social network in their tweets. FUSE Labs SocialGadgets is now live and available for testing over at FUSE Labs, offering four gadgets (Tag Cloud, Timeline, Buzz, Comparison).
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Near Earth Objects (NEOs) is an infographic project made by Zachary Vabolis Graphics designer / illustrator from Mechanicsville, MD. The data is actual data gathered from NASA's public records. Displayed are known near earth objects greater than 1000 meters in diameter and the dates that they will come closest to earth.
NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth's neighborhood. Composed mostly of water ice with embedded dust particles, comets originally formed in the cold outer planetary system while most of the rocky asteroids formed in the warmer inner solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
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Visualization of tourism networks
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