Conrad Hackett 
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
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).
The United States 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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🇯🇵 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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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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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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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
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https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/07/11/public-attitudes-toward-political-engagement-on-social-media/ #PewResearch
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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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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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https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings
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U.S. men's facial hair styles in college yearbooks from 1898-2008
https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/64q73v/comment/dg44iay/
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https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/64q73v/comment/dg44iay/
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Workers working 60+ hours a week in one job
🇹🇷 Turkey 15%
🇨🇴 Colombia 14%
🇲🇽 Mexico 13%
🇬🇷 Greece 10%
🇰🇷 S Korea 8%
🇨🇱 Chile 7%
🇯🇵 Japan 6%
🇦🇺 Australia 6%
🇫🇷 France 5%
🇬🇧 UK 4%
🇺🇸 US 3%
🇨🇦 Canada 3%
🇪🇸 Spain 3%
🇫🇮 Finland 2%
🇩🇪 Germany 2%
🇩🇰 Denmark 2%
🇸🇪 Sweden 1%
🇳🇴 Norway 1%
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🇹🇷 Turkey 15%
🇨🇴 Colombia 14%
🇲🇽 Mexico 13%
🇬🇷 Greece 10%
🇰🇷 S Korea 8%
🇨🇱 Chile 7%
🇯🇵 Japan 6%
🇦🇺 Australia 6%
🇫🇷 France 5%
🇬🇧 UK 4%
🇺🇸 US 3%
🇨🇦 Canada 3%
🇪🇸 Spain 3%
🇫🇮 Finland 2%
🇩🇪 Germany 2%
🇩🇰 Denmark 2%
🇸🇪 Sweden 1%
🇳🇴 Norway 1%
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We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A:
People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
Eighteenth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots
How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/01/this-is-the-best-explanation-of-gerrymandering-you-will-ever-see/
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This is an excellent and fascinating animation of how the 10 most populous cities in the world changed from 1500 to 2018
by @jburnmurdoch
Hang in - it takes a few seconds to begin. Twentieth in a 🧵 of #2022TopToots
Leslie 🇺🇸🌻🌈 🌊@conradhackett @jburnmurdoch very cool 👍
Radi@conradhackett @jburnmurdoch Mesmerizing! All those lives created and destroyed .
anlomedadAnimation of how the 10 most populous cities in the world changed from 1500 to 2018.
Whhoa!! Brilliant #scicomm ! And don't you just love the Fediverse that lets you download the gif as video so you can play it slower?
Sue Strong@anlomedad_real @conradhackett @jburnmurdoch I didn’t know that and just downloaded it. That’s an awesome feature of the #Fediverse
anggiar 
@conradhackett It's part of US election culture at this point.
Toni M.the color coding of the gerrymandering is random and meaningless, right? 😉
Ulf Dittmer@conradhackett it's always been a mystery to me how the Supreme Court can claim there to be no feasible and fair general solution to setting district boundaries, when there are in fact relatively simple algorithmic solutions.
Kevin Karhan 
@conradhackett #Gerrymandering only works when those in power draw the districts' borders and not some independent comission based off census data.
Infrapink (he/his/him)@conradhackett In #Ireland we would have one big constituency with all 50 people in it, that sends five representatives to the parliament. Three Blue, two Red, all representing the same area.
red raccoon@conradhackett Thanks for your explanation. 
Master Chicken@conradhackett Great graphical representation!
Martha Howell@conradhackett Here is the outcome of that gerrymandering. Dems in WI won 60% of the vote. Republican bias and control mean that Madison and Milwaukee essentially have no representation in WI's statehouse.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/26/francesca-hong/state-gop-only-let-less-2-democratic-bills/
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/26/francesca-hong/state-gop-only-let-less-2-democratic-bills/
@conradhackett honestly, this reason alone, is enough for me to support direct democracy.
We have the technology to do it. Why do we have “representatives” that don’t actually “represent” you?
Sounds like a bullshit job ripe for automation out of existence.
Have everyone vote on everything.
Humble Fan of Atty. Woo@conradhackett
simple explanation is charting it. Easily understood. thanks.
simple explanation is charting it. Easily understood. thanks.
swfong@conradhackett we make movies about sharks, including the ones in tornados. But mosquito abatement spending is over 100m, which is probably less than the Sharknado films box office.
Holz2735@conradhackett
If the stats showed hours worked weekly in all jobs the US would be higher up. It is common for folk to work 2 or even three jobs. Hours are kept below 32/wk by many employers in order to justify denying benefits etc.
If the stats showed hours worked weekly in all jobs the US would be higher up. It is common for folk to work 2 or even three jobs. Hours are kept below 32/wk by many employers in order to justify denying benefits etc.
LongFingered Egalitarian@conradhackett I would like to see statistics on the total number of hours worked per week, but not confined to one job. Also, a chart on the relationship between the total number of hours worked and the total income would reveal a lot. I’m guessing that many Americans are working several low-paying jobs just to make ends meet. #WageSlavery Capitalism is a stacked deck that favors the few.
Christian Gelleri ✅@conradhackett and China, India???
Tiakuh Son@conradhackett I think this is totally bs because to many people work extra hours that are not accounted for. Explain how this data was gathered...
Hammancheez@conradhackett I have a great four generation picture of my grandfather from 1911 with his great grandfather and grandfather with enormous mutton chops 😉
Ben@conradhackett This will never cease to horrify me
Stormcrow@conradhackett Early neutering saves lives.
SideWalkAstonomyNetherlands@conradhackett And most of these guns in most countries, are farmers hunting guns. Not for killing the neighbours like as in the USA.
Judi AndersonThis is a distinction that doesn't deserve celebration AFAIK.
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🎓 Doc Freemo 
🇳🇱@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@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/
@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
Gaythia Weis@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.
Thomas Gronfeldt@conradhackett Is this registered, legal guns, or does it include an estimate of illegal guns as well?
loza@conradhackett gee…what could be the cause of our gun violence explosion?
Kansas Grant@conradhackett Sadly, that does nothing to dispel the stereotype that my own state of Kansas is flat.
PC
Echuta@conradhackett
Fun fact. The highest elevation here in Broward County South Florida is Mt. Trashmore at the county landfill/dump.
Fun fact. The highest elevation here in Broward County South Florida is Mt. Trashmore at the county landfill/dump.
Patty Kimura
Tod Hilton 
@conradhackett @djwfyi That's pretty amazing!
Patrick McLaughlinWeirdly, this seems to explain some things. But not the ones one might first expect.
Martin Vermeer FCD@McPatrick @conradhackett Pogrom purple seems clear though.
Chris White@conradhackett To me, the agreement is more striking than the differences. Majorities from all groups on all questions, and spread is always less than 20 points. And 66 percent of Blacks agreed with the 80 percent of Whites that perceived distractions. It seems to me the differences are less stark than your remarks implied to me.
@conradhackett Slightly depressing that the dichotomy suggests there is little for White, Black and Hispanic to empathize and discuss on common ground…..
Agora@morganalafee @conradhackett I wish I were shocked. But I have been lamenting about something connected to this. For example, as a black person, I have often felt that voting rights and gerrymandering would be resolved if white people felt impacted by these discriminatory practices in voting. I feel in my bones that we would end gerrymandering if white folks thought this negatively affected them as well. Voter suppression is often viewed as a black people's problem
Marverde@conradhackett
This confirms that I definitely do not think like a white American.
This confirms that I definitely do not think like a white American.
Tea ☕️That is interesting. Especially that the question as a whole flips with Hispanics staying at the 60ish%
@conradhackett, that is a massive disconnect for sure.