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List of 20 Simple, Distinct Colors

In making my latest project (soon to be revealed!) I came across a problem. The challenge was to color-code 20 different rail lines for a metro system diagram, and I found myself spending an inordina…

11 January, 2017

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US cities: cheap and open-minded

Context: on Quora, I was asked, “What is the cheapest and most open-minded city in the United States?“ Tl;dr: Louisville, Kentucky – aka “Where sobriety goes to die” or “The Southe…

20 November, 2016

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Platypus

This map shows European languages grouped by the etymology of their word for the platypus. This particular map shows several trends. The United Kingdom was the first European nation to discover the platypus, around 1800. As zoologists across the continent became more aware of this curious animal, an interesting combination of political and linguistic factors began to […]

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Long Island according to Urban Dictionary

Here’s a full-res version.This one’s pretty straightforward. Like the Washington State map, this was made at a friend’s request. This time I decided to make it a little more empirically sound by…

31 January, 2016