Fictional Geography. Events in the past could have shaped the United States into these divisions you see on the map.
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3 months ago • 1,137 notesOne in six American adults is a binge drinker, consuming alcohol in excess about four times a month, according to a sobering CDC report. In the infographic above, you’ll find the percentage of population classified as binge drinkers.
The study — which defines binge drinking as five or more drinks in a short period of time for men and four or more for women — breaks down the nation’s 38 million binge drinkers by a variety of measures, including geography, age and income level. Wisconsin is the state with the most binge drinkers at 25 percent of the population, while Utah, home to the teetotaling Mormon church, comes in last at less than 11 percent.
Cheers.
Home sweet home.
NB: We in the north clearly understand the value of a “shot for warmth”
3 months ago • 761 notesNational Forest Map of the Day: And while we’re on the subject, here’s an informative infographic called the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset, which, according to Woods Hole Research Center scientist Josef Kellndorfer is “the largest high-resolution map of forest biomass yet assembled.”
A collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, the national forest map was assembled using satellite imagery and on-the-ground measurements collected over the course of six years.
From my ongoing Altered States Project, in which I’m making these abstract sculptures from an old atlas. I’m taking cues for the surface geometry from arbitrary divisions of states and counties; absurdly mocking the structure of a topographical map.
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a map of people in chicago going to work and then going home via their geotagged tweets (via gapersblock)
Is this the structure of Chicago? (by Eric Fischer)
Looks like a retina scan, am I right?
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3 months ago • 2,657 notesInfographic of the Day: Using geo data from photos uploaded by users to Google’s Panoramio, Sightsmap generates an interactive heatmap of the most frequently photographed spots around the world.
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