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Science

How Great Data Graphics Tap Into Your Caveman Brain

Your brain isn’t designed to digest a big matrix of numbers and then just burp out knowledge. It is designed to spot and recognise patterns, and it’s been trained to do that over thousands of years.

1 May 2013

Online

TPP: The Biggest Global Threat To The Internet Since ACTA

The United States and 10 governments from around the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand, are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the internet since ACTA.

26 April 2013

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The Real Instruction Manual For Your Shared Office Printer

Working in an office with other people is fraught with all kinds of tensions and politics*, but there is nothing more divisive than the humble shared printer. Here’s the instruction manual they forgot to include in the box that behemoth of a colour laser arrived in.

Online

The 12 Types Of People Who Use Social Networks

At this point, you’re almost weirder if you don’t use any social networks than if you were a social media obsessive who tweets, Facebooks, Instagram and hashtags the hell out of your vocabulary. It’s how weird the world is now. Social networks are real life. But who are the people who make up these worlds? If there are 12 personality types in social networks, which one are you?

23 April 2013

Software

A Cheat Sheet Of Every Single Gmail Keyboard Shortcut

Do you use Gmail a lot? Then you need to see this graphic with all the keyboard shortcuts that can make like a million times easier. It comes complete with visualisations of each action, for some reference of what you’re actually accomplishing.

17 April 2013

Software

Your Year In Foursquare Checkins, Visualised

Foursquare just launched a neat new tool that allows you to view the last year of your life in Foursquare check-ins. Don’t worry! It’s more than a depressingly reductive view of your life as the summation of activities on a social network. It’s actually really cool.

11 April 2013

Software

The Evolution Of Gmail, Visualised

On April Fools’ Day, 2004, Google launched Gmail, and it wasn’t long before @gmail.com email addresses usurped the kingdom of Hotmail. Google just posted a nice visualisation of the service’s evolution from a humble beta to a Google Goliath.

10 April 2013

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The Evolution Of Outdoor Seating Brilliantly Visualised

The New York Times has an awesome retrospective graphic that shows how al fresco seating has evolved all the way from 1889 to the present. The next time you’re perched on a verandah, maybe you’ll think a little more about what your butt’s resting on.

Gadgets

This Is How Google Glass Actually Works

We all know Google Glass doesn’t need sorcery for you to comfortably see a digital image projected over reality. But just how does it work? This infographic by Martin Missfeldt lays out the way the magic happens in simple terms.

4 April 2013

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Here Is A Chart Showing All The Different Cuts Of Beef

Beef is never not delicious, but certain cuts of beef are even more delicious than other parts of meat. Why is that? Because the cow is a pretty big animal and different parts of it can be fattier or leaner than the other. This infographic from Visual.ly breaks down where which kind of beef cut comes from.

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