Why couldn’t we have gotten #1 in something nice like “fruit juice drinkers”? Read more: http://upworthy.com/map-somalia-is-1-at-pirates-and-czech-republic-is-1-at-drinking-beer-what-about
Here’s the thing. New York made a fancy pants map. And they put you on it. So maybe you read it? Maybe you share it around? People learn some fancy geography. Badda bing badda boom, we go get a slice. Everyone wins. Done. We good? Read more: http://upworthy.com/classy-map-hey-america-this-is-what-new-york-friggin-thinks-of-ya-we-good
The research team at Google Trends recently put together this map that shows the most misspelled words in the US by state. The data is based on the top searched query for “how to spell _________” from January 1st – April 30th, 2017. I love that ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ was the most searched word in two states.…
This view puts a distant war in closer perspective. Gaza has 1.8 million people living in only 139 square miles. That’s a lot of people in a small area, so when bombs fall, they make a big impact. To get a sense of what the area containing 1.8 million people looks like in your city…
San Franciscan urban planner Sarah Levine loves to make maps. She is also a woman — which makes her vulnerable to street harassment, something that all women go through. As a man, it never hit me how frequent this phenomenon happens to the women I know. That is, until Sarah mapped out four days of…