What can we learn from the lat and long about population? These maps by Bill Rankin show us that that almost 90% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere and that almost half of all people reside north of 27°N? Credit: Big Think
Growing from one small store in Bentonville, Arkansas in 1962 to over 4,400 stores across the US today, Walmart has become one of the top dogs in the retail game. There seems to be one in just about every city and town in the United States, and this infographic by Flowing Data shows exactly how they …
Water Quality focuses on the Calumet Region, part of the southern Lake Michigan basin extending from just south of Chicago into northwest Indiana. Over the last 150 years, the Calumet has been transformed from a diverse system of marshes and wetlands to a dense urban fabric. Although most of these wetlands have been drained for …
If you have turned on a Pop/Top 40 radio station in the past year or so you may have noticed that more and more songs are featuring upbeat tempos and synth lines. This is a result of the ever growing and expanding genre of dance music which has broken into mainstream music only relatively recently. This …
