Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space!
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
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More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/ Second in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots
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 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
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Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).
One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.
More info: https://oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book
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Estimated gender pay gap within job (same occupation at same firm)
🇯🇵 Japan 26%
🇰🇷 S Korea 19%
🇺🇸 US 14%
🇩🇪 Germany 13%
🇪🇸 Spain 12%
🇮🇱 Israel 12%
🇨🇦 Canada 12%
🇳🇴Norway 9%
🇫🇷 France 7%
From study https://nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01470-z#
by @OlivierGodechot & 28 others
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/
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This amazing map shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881
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2022 Press Freedom Rank
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
https://rsf.org/en/index
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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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d8tbs5/major_cities_and_towns_in_north_america_replaced/
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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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The only things on this map are railroads!
https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/lj4wqt/the_railroads_of_the_world_oc/
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80% of Black Americans said social media help shed light on rarely discussed issues; the same share of White Americans said these sites distract from more important issues.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media/ #PewResearch Twelfth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots
Which US state has the largest share of people with ancestry from each European country?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/q9ct5b/what_us_state_has_the_largest_ancestry_in/
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Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jslbn9/us_elevation_tiles_oc/
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The US is the only country with more civilian guns than people
https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings
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@conradhackett Or the only country with good enough records.. Though wouldnt surprise me if true.
I will say i am exposed far more to guns in Israel than the US. People wear them in their belt at work like its nothing, kids walk down the treet with m16 on their backs... I see more guns in a day in Israel than I've seen in a lifetime in the USa.
@ZingerLearns The people with handguns on their hip at my work are **not** military. But yea the M16 are military related but keep in mind these are kids walking home who take the guns with them, they are off duty and alone just walking around with M16s.
Now to be fair im not against guns. I wouldnt mind every civilian walking around with an AR-15 either.. I'm just pointing out it is something you see constantly with civilians open-carrying in israel which is far more rare in USA.
@ZingerLearns I also think the number of guns to civial count is a bad measure.. In the USA you have a few people with thousands of guns... I think a more meaingful measure is how many people own guns.
@freemo yup, no question that the vast majority of guns are owned by a small group of the population. Would be interesting to see how many own none, 1, 2 or 3+
@ZingerLearns indeed, there is a lot of nuance to these numbers
@freemo @ZingerLearns The NRA started out as a hunter safety organization, catering to legitimate gun users in mostly rural areas. Many in these areas, or originating from these areas are suffering economically. The question is what drives some over the line into gun extremism. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/15/iowa-police-chief-bradley-wendt-atf-90-machine-guns/10906567002/
What do we mean when we say "gun extremism"? I think many may disagree on what constitutes extreme in the first place
@freemo @Gaythia I think that is a very complicated question in terms of "extremism" as it relates to where one lives (especially rural vs urban) and the type of guns we are talking. I think about hunting for example. I question the need or right to own for military weapons/weapons of war that are not particularly effective in home defense or hunting, and are almost always used for mass murder in the US ala AR-15s
Im not sure the geography has muchg an effect on how "extreme" it is, though it may suggest what "normal" is. Im not even sure the type of gun matters (though if its illegal that is kinda suggestive though).
I think what matters more is the why. If someone collects them as they would coins or stamps it isnt extreme no matter what you have, after all its resellable, perhaps at a profit.
Now if your collecting guns to start a war or raise an army against the government then yea, you are probably extreme.
@freemo I think the key is civilian vs. military. No question about the proliferation of guns in Israel, but I think the vast majority are military issued. I also wonder about the regional nature of this in the US.
Here is gun ownership rate by state
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-ownership-by-state
Here is an older Pew report on US gun ownership
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/