If People Do Not Believe That Mathematics Is Simple, It Is Only Because They Do Not Realize How Complicated

This map shows the percent of residents of each state who own passports.

(via This infographic from 1897 show the entire American Civil War on a single map - Geoawesomeness)

InfoVis is definitely not a new thing

Adding two identical waves, shifted by different amounts, to give a new wave. The waves interfere to either amplify each other, cancel each other out, or something in between. [more] [code]

I don´t believe that  anybody feels the  way I do, about you now 

Fifty years of space exploration. Well, American space exploration at least. Originally published by National Geographic back in 2008, a few things have changed:

Several new missions have embarked to our Moon since 2008, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GRAIL (mission complete, RIP) and LADEE, just launched last week.

The Mars Curiosity rover, duh!

Juno, launched in 2011, is only halfway to Jupiter today. That big planet is far away.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory has given us beautiful solar spectra to stare at.

New Horizons is set to be the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto and its moons in 2015. It rode on the fastest launch vehicle ever in order to begin its epic journey.

And Voyager has left the building …

Embigginate this beautiful piece of work here.

Title: Islandia

Map Maker: Abraham Ortelius

Place / Date: Antwerp / 1603