The Map Scroll

This game is way better than Lemonade Stand. Click on the image to go to the game, in which you can "trash the environment, bribe the ...

With Obama's first Supreme Court nomination imminent, Andrew Gelman looks at this new article (pdf) about public support for some rec...

Apparently a "roomba" is some sort of artificial intelligence device that people actually allow into their homes under the delude...

Remember how last week we were all going to die because of swine flu? And but now it looks like it just gives you a case of the sniffles? Th...

Via The Map Room , The New York Times maps organic farms in the US . For comparison, the Times also has a map showing the locations of all f...

I'm just gonna keep on keeping on with this intranational HDI comparison kick. Today: China! There's obviously a huge range in the ...

I wanted to see if other wealthy countries were similar to the US in having a region within their borders that doesn't really live up to...

That map of states by human development index score reminded me of something. Remember this New York Times map of voting shifts from 2004 ...

EDIT WITH HUGE DISCLAIMER : The US HDI is not at all comparable to the world HDI. The data which this map represent are not, in fact based o...

Headwaters Economics, a non-profit organization focused on issues pertaining to the American West, divides that region into three types of c...

Robert D. Kaplan has a fascinating article in the new issue of Foreign Policy in which he makes the case for the preeminence of geography ...

Via the Southern Political Report , this map , based on data from a telephone survey performed by the Centers for Disease Control, shows per...

Mint has a visualization of trade relations between the US and China, and between those countries and the world. Some numbers from the grap...

Search Engine Land has links to some more maps of the porcine influenza. You know how google has a flu map for the US based on web search ...

A team of Cornell researchers has developed a method for mapping out the locations of about 35 million images from Flickr. The resultant vis...

The Natural Resources Defense Council has a new ugly map of green energy potential in the United States. In the map layer shown above, dark...

It was only a matter of time before this showed up. A Google map of the spread of the global health scare du jour. Pink markers are suspect...

Redhat.com has an interactive map ranking the world's countries (a goodly portion of them, at any rate) by their amenity to open sourci...