political science
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Disturbing Data Visualisation Shows Just How Many People Would Die In A Nuclear War
Data visualisation artist Neil Halloran has a knack for turning incomprehensibly large and complex data sets into content that’s both coherent and engrossing. In his latest project, the filmmaker uses his skills to convey the unthinkable: The total number of deaths caused by an all-out nuclear war.
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Wikipedia Is Basically A Corporate Bureaucracy, According To A New Study
Wikipedia is a voluntary organisation dedicated to the noble goal of decentralised knowledge creation. But as the community has evolved over time, it has wandered further and further from its early egalitarian ideals, according to a new paper published in the journal Future Internet. In fact, such systems usually end up looking a lot like…