Tag Archives: maps

The Lands Of Human Sexuality

Everything from “Spin The Bottle” to stuff whose meaning I shudder to wonder. Visit the Human Sex Map to click off what you’ve already tried and liked, tried and hated, and so on.

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Today In Mildly Interesting Trivia

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Visualizing The Oil Spill

An interactive map lets you compare the size of the Gulf oil spill to your part of the country. (I think the spill is actually bigger than this map shows.)

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MTA Issues New NYC Subway Map

NYC’s MTA has issued an updated version of it iconic subway map. The new map continues to distort the actual shapes and sizes of the boroughs, especially Staten Island, which is shrunk to a fraction of its real size, otherwise it wouldn’t fit on the map. And below you can see the real shape of Manhattan versus what the MTA …

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Where Europe’s Denominations Dominate

Here’s the European version of the map I posted earlier in the week. Green dots mean more Catholics, blue dots mean more Protestants. UPDATE: I’m not really getting this map either. Maybe someone can suss out the methodology at the source.

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Maybe It Really IS The Big Easy

Rubber retailer CondomMania has analyzed the sales patterns of their custom-fit condoms and arrived at the above ranking of American cities by size requests. “These fitted condoms range in length from 3 to 10 inches and from super slim to extra roomy.” says Chris Filkins, Condomania’s Directory of Technology. “After gathering detailed information on over 27,000 penises, we now have …

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Where Denominations Dominate

Each color-coded dot represents a part of the country where membership in one Christian sect dominates the others. Green is Baptist, red is Methodist, light blue is Catholic.

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If The Whole Country Was Brooklyn

According to some urban planners, if the entire USA lived with the same population density of Brooklyn, we could all live in an area the size of New Hampshire. The rest of the nation would become farmland and parks and there’s be little need for domestic air travel. And we’d all ride our solar-powered hovercycles to our sustainable green office …

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Ain’t No Party Like A Midwest Party Cuz A Midwest Party Don’t Stop

Red = more bars. Yellow = more grocery stores. Via Consumerist: Starting in Illinois, the beer belly expands up into Wisconsin and first spreads westward through Iowa/Minnesota and then engulfs Nebraska, and the Dakotas before petering out (like a pair of love handles) in Wyoming and Montana. The clustering was so apparent that we wanted to check how it compared …

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Meat Beat Manifesto

Via the USDA’s Food Environment Atlas. Lots more maps at the link.

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Three’s Company

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Gerrymandering The States

Via the Atlantic, here’s what the states might look like were their borders redrawn every ten years to reflect population changes, as is done with congressional districts. The Electoral Reform Map: Rather than replacing a time honored system that, after all, has only broken down three times in over 200 years, the organization of the states should be altered. In …

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The Gay State Of The World

(Via – World Focus, tipped by JMG reader Alex)

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Dutch Manhattan

Gothamist points us to this cool map showing how New Amsterdam looked 350 years ago. The defensive “Wall” on the northern border, of course became the global center of commerce. Those rotten Brits tore most of the wall down in 1699. The Chinese are finishing the job right now.

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Unshocking: NYC Is Most Neurotic

The Map Scroll has overlaid some study of personality traits on a map of North America. Result: NYC really is a town of Woody Allens. Other personality maps here. Atlanta seems to be very agreeable, which seems about right.(Via – Richard Florida)

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Alcohol Consumption By Country

Looks like Ireland might lead the pack. Embiggen for better detail. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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