• ‘Having a Bit of a Tinker’: John Clarke, Birds, and the Daily Pleasure of Writing
• Country Diary: Return of the Parish Lengthsman
• Country Diary: Ringing the Changes in the Bird Population
• Country Diary 1967: Sniffing Out Birds at the Sewage Farm
• Country Diary: A Village History Told in Maps
Conversation School
• The Secret Life of ‘Um’
• Why Small Talk Is Actually Really Good for You
• The Police Have Discovered Social Media Banter — the Result Is No Joke
• The Languages That Take the Most (and Least) Time to Learn, per the US Foreign Service
• A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes to Learn Foreign Languages: Fro…
Weight for Santa
• How Much Weight Would Santa Gain from Eating Milk and Cookies at Every House He Visits?
• Santa Claus, Indiana Gets 20,000 Letters a Year — and ‘Elves’ Reply to All of Them
• Here Lies Santa Claus? Researchers Zero In on Bones of St. Nick
• Finally, Proof That Christmas Songs Really Do Your Head I…
Map Lust 3
• U.S. Corn Production by Percent
• Global Farming Land, USGS Survey
• Official Language Status in the US by State
• Cropland Map of the Continental US, 2012
• Land Value in Manhattan, 2006
• Fragile State Index, 2015
• This Map, with a Dot for Every American, Shows the Country’s Racial Divisio…
Who’s Bigger?
• These Are All the Places That Europeans Actually Discovered
• Australia Compared to the Continental United States
• The Size of Japan Compared with New Zealand
• Japan, How Big It Is in Reality?
• The Size of the Middle East Compared to the United States
• How Big Greenland Actually Is
Trading Places
• Lost Containers and Rubber Ducks Overboard: Inside the Curious World of Container Shipping
• How the Shipping Industry Is the Secret Force Driving the World Economy
• Map of Every Country’s Biggest Export
• Map of Major Suppliers of Critical Raw Materials
• Interactive: The 50 Large…
Country Diary 6
• Cracking on With the Walnut Harvest in Suffolk
• Country Diary: Autumn Is Particularly Busy for Red Squirrels of Formby
• Country Diary: Hand-Chiselled Headstones Speak in Rural Accents
• Country Diary: Pines That Went to Passchendaele
All at Sea
• Range of Pinnipedia
• The Colossal Squid Is a Real-Life Sea Monster
• Is the Mysterious Sea Cucumber Slipping out of Our Grasp?
• 10 Juicy Facts about Sea Apples
• Even Scientists Were Blown Away by These Weird Sea Creatures They Found
• 8 Fascinating Facts about…
Scrawls of the Scribes
• Why Ancient Mapmakers Were Terrified of Blank Spaces
• Medieval City Plan Generator
• Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
• Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video
• Strange and Curious Wills of the Georgian Era in the Canterbury Court
Safety Zones
• These Are the Safest Countries in the World to Visit
• Three Graphics That Show Why Finland Is the Safest Place on the Planet
• This Unexpected Country Is Apparently the World’s Safest Place to Travel
• Land Mines in Ukraine’s East Put It Among World’s Most Dangerous Areas for Civilians
• People in These Places Le…
Eco-Effects
• Percent of Forests by Land Area in Europe
• Rare Victory for Rainforests as Nations Vow to Stop ‘Death by Chocolate’
• Which Costs More in Electricity Use: Using a Hairdryer or Microwaving a Meal?
• Google Is Mapping Out Air Pollution Levels on Google Earth
• Big Meat and Big Dairy Emit Enough Carbon to Put Exxon M…
Demography in Turmoil
• Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, a Powerful Six-Word Compilation about Cultural Identity and Immigration
• My Travels in White America — A Land of Anxiety, Division and Pockets of Pain
• One Weird Trick to End Gerrymandering: Cake-Cutting Game Theory
• Researchers Propose a Gaming Solution to Gerrymanderin…
National Colors
• The Reason You Almost Never See Purple on National Flags
• Tourism Logos of US States
• Tourism Logos of Canadian Provinces
• Tourism Logos for Italian Regions
• The World’s Most Powerful Passport Is No Longer European
• Places Where English Is an Official Language
• Main Native Language-Fami…
Banter & Boulder
• Why ‘Bushman Banter’ Was Crucial to Hunter-Gatherers’ Evolutionary Success
• Why It’s Human Nature to Ignore Our Instincts
• Jimmy Chin on the Deeper Meaning of Climbing
• Japanese Gardens: The Enigmatic Art of Raked Gravel and Rocks Does Not Give up Its Secrets Lightly
• Don’t Convert Africa…
Butterball, Bath, & Beyond
• Japan’s “Leftover Bathwater Drink” Wants You to Imagine Beautiful Nude Women as You Sip It
• KFC Cooks Up Fried Chicken Bath Salts in Japan
• You Can Now Smell Like Fried Chicken Thanks to This KFC Drumstick Bath Bomb
• This Ice Cream Is Flavored Like Thanksgiving Dinner Foods
• Thanksgiving-Inspired Ice…
Map Lust 2
• The Independence Movements around the World
• Median Age around the World
• Population Density of Africa with US Equivalents
• African Climate with Equivalent Cities from around the World
• Countries by GDP per Square Kilometer
• Computer-Generated Maps Imagine America Redivided into Equal-Population Ar…
Map Lust 1
• Map of Aussie Slang
• European Languages by Use of Grammatical Genders and Gendered…
• The Western World According to American Political Scientist…
• Countries with a Positive Net Migration Rate
• Countries’ Yearly Population Change
• Percent of the World’s Population Within 10,000 K…