The Map Scroll

Germany had an election; Der Spiegel has a map (under the Wahlkriese tab): (According to Babel Fish , 'erobert' means 'conquere...

I can't improve on the blog post title from Stephen Von Worley , who maps the US by distance to the nearest McDonalds: We here at the Ma...

Yankee Magazine crowd-sources autumn: Reports are made by people (qualification: have color vision!) around the northeastern US, who write ...

The New York Times has another one of their ridiculously information-rich maps which shows all of the 200,000+ facilities around the US tha...

This is not reallya map. Or maybe you could say it's a kind of time-map. But whatever, I'm posting it anyways: From the NY Times , i...

Dante's Divine Comedy is one of those classics I've been meaning to read for years and just haven't gotten around to. Likening ...

The Underground is hot , according to this heat map of heat: Says Times Online : It is easy to feel sorry for commuters on the London Under...

This game lets you respond to outbreaks of disease! Deliver face masks, develop vaccines, and watch verite videos of indeterminately Teuton...

A new map from Gallup and AHIP (and a continuation of their study of well-being across the states, covered here before ), measures states b...

It occurs to me, regarding incarceration rates, that it would make sense to simply show per capita incarceration rates by state. So here you...

At Criminal Justice , Matt Kelley posts a chart from the Pew Center's report "One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008" (pdf) ...

ProPublica has an interactive US map of the recipients of bank bailout funds: On this map, "Each marker represents the headquarters o...

I have yet to see a forward-thinking and possibly pie-in-the-sky rail plan for the United States that I didn't feel like posting here, a...

Tired of the staid monotony that is life in the 21st Century? Feel like there just aren't enough calamities in the day? Crave the delici...

Dear Internets, Busy busy busy. Changes are afoot, as I'm taking on a... well, a sort of government job on the East Coast. That means mo...

Coming Anarchy imagines a future Europe where the continent's various semi-latent separatist movements have achieved their goals: The c...

this is what they are seeing: It is humbling and awe-inspiring to think that we humans are the seat of self-consciousness in the universe -...

David Strahan, the journalist and author of the peak oil tome The Last Oil Shock , has an interactive Oil Depletion Atlas : You can roll ove...