November 12, 2012

theatlanticvideo:

A Jaw-Dropping Time-Lapse Video of Optical Illusions in Abandoned Houses

Multimedia artist Jeff Frost’s Flawed Symmetry of Prediction isn’t your average time-lapse study of the Milky Way. Frost paints massive geometric shapes on walls so that they function as optical illusions, blurring the line between 2D and 3D when captured on video.The experimental piece unfolds to reveal a haunting, post-apocalyptic world where flickering wildfires and industrial plants illuminate desert vistas. Frost’s sci-fi vibe is inspired in part by actual science — one painting draws on a NASA diagram of evidence for the Big Bang and the soundtrack uses clips recorded by Voyager 1. Be sure to watch it full screen in HD to appreciate the crisp visual detail. 

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Filed under: Video Graphic Design Astronomy Time-lapse NASA 
September 30, 2011
pulitzercenter: Which country’s income equality levels are closest to Turkey (39.7) - France or the United States? The NewsHour has a quiz for that. (Spoiler: It’s ….) newshour: Do you have “inequality intuition”? Test it in this quiz

pulitzercenter:

Which country’s income equality levels are closest to Turkey (39.7) - France or the United States?

The NewsHour has a quiz for that. (Spoiler: It’s ….)

newshour:

Do you have “inequality intuition”? Test it in this quiz

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Filed under: inequality world economics economy news politics paul solman graphic charts 
July 12, 2011
globeandmail: Map of Europe’s financial trouble Eric Reguly writes Tuesday: Italy moved with alarming speed from the fringe of the European Union’s financial crisis to its very centre as efforts to prevent the debt contagion from spreading beyond Greece, Ireland and Portugal failed, even threatening to engulf the United States. Plunging prices for trading in Italian debt presented Brussels with a nightmare scenario: The potential bailout of the third-largest economy in the euro zone could be unaffordable and could result in the destruction of the common currency. Click here to keep reading…

globeandmail:

Map of Europe’s financial trouble

Eric Reguly writes Tuesday:

Italy moved with alarming speed from the fringe of the European Union’s financial crisis to its very centre as efforts to prevent the debt contagion from spreading beyond Greece, Ireland and Portugal failed, even threatening to engulf the United States.

Plunging prices for trading in Italian debt presented Brussels with a nightmare scenario: The potential bailout of the third-largest economy in the euro zone could be unaffordable and could result in the destruction of the common currency.

Click here to keep reading…

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Filed under: news graphic infographic map economy debt 
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