Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!
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Here’s How America Uses Its Land
The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures.Bloomberg
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Chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes: A bizarre juxtaposition if there ever was one
Scientific American Blog NetworkConrad Hackett
in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •This map shows only people. It is a beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.
If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.
Map by Alasdair Rae visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
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3D Map: The World's Largest Population Density Centers
Visual CapitalistConrad Hackett
in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).
The United States sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.
More info: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016…
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oecd-ilibrary.orgConrad Hackett
in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •🇯🇵 Japan 26%
🇰🇷 S Korea 19%
🇺🇸 US 14%
🇩🇪 Germany 13%
🇪🇸 Spain 12%
🇮🇱 Israel 12%
🇨🇦 Canada 12%
🇳🇴Norway 9%
🇫🇷 France 7%
From study nature.com/articles/s41562-022…
by @OlivierGodechot & 28 others
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Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
NatureConrad Hackett
in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •climate.nasa.gov/climate_resou…
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Video: Climate Spiral – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Climate Change: Vital Signs of the PlanetConrad Hackett
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in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Sweden
16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
38 Taiwan
41 Burkina Faso
42 US
71 Japan
86 Israel
110 Brazil
119 Qatar
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
178 Iran
180 N Korea
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rsf.orgConrad Hackett
in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude.
The Gulf Stream makes winters less severe in many European cities than it is in their U.S./Canadian counterparts.
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r/MapPorn - Major cities and towns in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic by latitude.
redditConrad Hackett
in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •Can you spot the circles?
It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.
This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia
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in reply to Conrad Hackett • • •reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/c…
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r/dataisbeautiful - The railroads of the world! [OC]
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