So, how about you: Which former president would you most like to have a burger with?
Never mind the fact that burgers weren’t around when Abe Lincoln was alive, but we’d totally pick him.
A set of maps from NPR’s Adam Cole tell the story of the 2012 election using a software that distorts the states based on election spending.
In which the Rockies are on a diet, the largest state by land mass suddenly becomes an ink blot, and California looks like a giant tumor that’s trying to crush Nevada.
Here’s the official Million Puppet March route map! See you in DC on 11/3
So this is apparently happening right now.
2012 London Olympics in tweets
- 50 million tweets in just over two weeks
- Largest spike: 1.2M tweets in the 1st hour of the Opening Ceremony
- Most buzzed about Olympic sport: football (soccer!) with 2.8M tweets
- Most buzzed about athlete: diver Tom Daley from Great Britain with 630k tweets
- Most buzzed about country: the US with 104 medals and 5.4M tweets
(via TweetReach)
How much did you tweet about the Olympics, anyway?
The Obama administration faced skeptical questioning from a US Supreme Court dominated by conservatives on Tuesday during a tense two-hour showdown over a sweeping healthcare law that has divided Americans.
Today’s graphic takes you inside the hearings giving you all the details on who is involved and the layout of the hearing.
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Great graphic. Do you guys think the law will get overturned in its current form?
To put this simply, the odds are looking better for Mitt than anyone else at this point, but it’s not over yet.
Our map of economic hell has all of this week’s bad news. Sorry, tumblr.
Great breakdown. Here’s our take on the factory activity bit mentioned in the graphic.
This is the nerdiest use of an animated GIF we’ve ever seen. It almost goes against the idea of the animated GIF.
The space shuttle era comes to a close with the landing of Atlantis this week. View this infographic and timeline of the history and interesting facts and stats of the shuttle program:
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