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The Washington Post has published an interactive marriage equality map which doesn’t show all the lawsuits currently in progress, but it does highlight the states where we seem to be closest to a win.

JMG reader Jeff took a stab at creating a map that includes the states with active marriage equality lawsuits. Embiggen the image or see it at his site.

The darkest states are the most aerobically fit according to this study. Colorado tops the list among states, with 61.8 percent of adults meeting the standard for aerobic exercise; Oregon is second (61.1 percent), followed by Vermont (59.2 percent), Hawaii (58.5 percent) and California (58.2 percent). On the flip side, the lowest levels of participation in aerobic exercise are found …

An interesting map from the Washington Post: Secessionist movements are all the rage these days. A handful of counties in Colorado tried to secede from the rest of the state earlier this year. There’s an attempt to create the State of Jefferson (northern California/southern Oregon) via ballot initiative in 2014. And there’s plenty more. What would the U.S. look like …

Business Insider offers another take on the map they ran earlier this summer. Earlier this year, we ran a map from Reddit user SomeGuyFromCanada listing the most significant shows set in every state. We weren’t happy with all of the selections (no “Breaking Bad” or “Happy Days”?) so we hit the books to discover the shows representative of our nation. …

An insurance company provides the above ranking based on per capita tickets for speeding, careless driving, and failure to obey traffic signals.  Other rankings have yielded different results by calculating the per capita rates of DUIs and fatal crashes. (Tipped by JMG reader Jack)

JMG reader David points us to this nifty interactive map that reveals the construction date of New York City buildings. My Upper East Side building went up in 1910 and my super once explained that it was built as “overnight dorms” for the doctors at what is now Sloan-Kettering, which is down the street. According to the super, this was …

Business Insider: “Using Census data, we’ve figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000.” The list of counties is at the link.

I came across this schematic version of the NYC subway map last night. Its creator spoke to Gothamist last month: “Personally, I think that every large network should always issue two maps, a good geographical map and a good diagram so that people can choose which they prefer. Paris and Berlin offer both, London only a diagram, New York only …

Via Buzzfeed: It is illegal to be gay in 76 countries. Punishments range from fines to short and lifelong prison sentences, hard labor, forced psychiatric treatment, banishment, whippings, and death by public stoning. The upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have put Russia’s “gay propaganda” law and the international community on an unavoidable collision course, but whatever happens in February …

Via the Daily Mail: Imagine if the internet was mapped out like a solar system with the world’s biggest websites represented by individual planets. But instead of the map of just a handful of planets that we’re used to seeing when learning about space, The Internet Map, a website set up by a Russian data-visualisation designer, has in excess of …

Via Policy Mic. (Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

Via Maps On The Web, above is an image of the states by the brands they are famous for. I’d have picked Orlando-based Red Lobster for Florida. Embiggen to read the smaller states. I can’t tell what Rhode Island or Delaware are supposed to be.

Responding to the recent flap with the Pope, the Washington Post takes a look at atheism around the world: There’s surprisingly little data available on the subject. But a 2012 poll by WIN/Gallup International — an international polling firm that is not associated with the D.C.-based Gallup group — asked more than 50,000 people in 40 countries whether they considered …

North Dakota is the “booziest” state according to an analysis of 2010 census data. New Hampshire ranks last and New York ranks 19th. An interactive map at the bottom of this article also includes a ranking of liquor stores per capita.

The Washington Post created the above map in response to a survey examined by Swedish economists. According to the survey responses, the least racially tolerant places are India, Jordan, Hong Kong, and Bangladesh. Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other …

Click over to the actual site because this massive map is so detailed that the above screen-grab is pretty useless. Hundreds of interactive links on the map will take you to celebrity pronunciation examples found on YouTube. I’ve always found the Brooklyn-New Orleans accent connection interesting. Goodbye, morning. (Tipped by JMG reader Sean)

More at Slate. (Via JMG reader Win)

Visit this interactive map and mouse-over the states and countries to discover the top porn search terms for each region.  The top ten in Texas: teen, MILF, creampie, college, amateur, massage, POV, hentai, anal, ebony. In almost every other state “lesbian” is in the top ten.  The Czech Republic’s list is…interesting.

Buzzfeed today posts a number of maps that note where some terms are more widely-used than others.