Probably the best Red Balloon clue you'll find.

How safe is the HPV vacine?

Where in the world are the nukes? (pdf)

John Quincy Adams

Map of daily progress for sailing voyage from Charlestown, Massachusetts to St. Petersburg, Russia.

Who's falling for health reform myths?

The Breathing Earth simulation

Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.

Afghan war rugs

Michael Jackson sample map

A diagram of artists who have used samples of Michael Jackson songs in their own songs.

Baseball infographics and other visual treats

Tweets in the Middle East containing the word "Iran"

Iranian Politics 101: The Graphic Version

Iran's complex political system

Alphabetical list of Members of the British House of Lords

Alphabetical list of British MPs

Map of the Fallen

A detailed Google Earth data file plotting coalition casualties and including biographical information

The original patent for the Pringles can or "Packaging of chip-type snack food products"

I can see Kim Jong Il's house from here!

North Korean points of interest mentioned on the 5/28 Rachel Maddow Show

WSJ: Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil

If you don't feel like tinkering with mapping software, The Wall Street Journal offers a story and slide shows.

Download North Korea Uncovered from North Korea Economy Watch

Note: North Korea Uncovered is a KMZ file that requires Google Earth to render.

Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale

1893 map of Afghanistan showing its British-drawn borders with Indian (and Beloochistan)

HealthMap - Global disease alert map

NPR: Visualizing the grid - Interactive map of the U.S. electricity grid

Long War Journal: Taliban presence, in the Islamabad region. 4/24/09

Spanish flu death chart

Information Management: A Proposal; Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, March 1989, May 1990 (The original proposal of the World Wide Web.)

Flight paths of U.S. aircraft mapped over 24 hours. (video mid-page)

More flight pattern art

An edited version of David Kilcullen's statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, chaired by Senator John F. Kerry, on 5th February 2009.

High Speed Rail Corridors map

That ridiculously scary job losses chart

More scary budget documents and other wicked scary economic charts (pdf!)

Map of stimulus distribution nation wide by state

The often-referenced stimulus "bang for the buck" chart is table 1 in this Moody's report. (pdf)

Thomas Jefferson on the role of the press

Finding Osama bin Laden: An application of biogeographic theories and satellite imagery (pdf)

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