I’m also sharing the same content I’m sharing here on X on Facebook where I operate as “Simon shows you maps”: facebook.com/share/1AXePrrrC…

Neil and Buzz didn't go very far. Map overlays the path traveled by the first men on the moon 50 years ago on a standard football pitch. A small step indeed... Source: buff.ly/2Yr2zgF

The rate of work-related injury claims in New Zealand has almost halved over the past 23 years. Yet another one of those positive but mundane stats that rarely makes the news but shows steady improvement over time.

The internet gets angry fast, and moves on fast. Across 15 recent controversies, Google search interest fell below 25% of its peak after a median of just 6 days Most controversies had largely faded within eight days. The online attention cycle is very short. Source: buff.ly/xa4Upo3

Girls perform better at reading tests than boys. The education system isn’t working for many boys and we are all worse off for it. Source: buff.ly/LzoxW3A

Wild fit. Gore’s shirt is literally just Map.

Wait. What?

The shower hair graph remains one of my favourite dataviz out there. In reality the visual shows the paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over. Science is beautiful. Source: buff.ly/2n3Q7mx

Russia now supplies China with four times as much oil as Saudi Arabia does. Source: buff.ly/phnMo2B

Beautiful view of the Baltic Sea from the international space station. Source: buff.ly/2wsdQFM

This hand-drawn topographic map of South Africa exaggerates mountains to highlight its geographical features. A gorgeous view of a beautiful country. Source: buff.ly/2sVr6wU

Beautiful topographic map of the UK from 1922. Published just after the death of the great cartographer John George Bartholomew by his company. Source: buff.ly/34e8VXq

Another one of my beloved before and after visuals. HT @civixplorer

The West used to create huge amounts of new urban land by reclaiming coastlines. Then it largely stopped in the 1970s. The authors argue the constraint isn’t technology or geography, but environmental regulation and permitting. Meanwhile China, Singapore and Japan kept building land. Source: buff.ly/jqSztrk

Huge drop in web traffic to the biggest US news websites. I know that the anti-mainstream media is loving this but news are now consumed from unruly sources to a higher degree than before. That opens up the flood gates for misinformation more than before.

Water world

An absolute banger by @chronocarta. Simple idea. Great fun to look at. New World vs Old World.

Wonderful geography trivia.

us if we flew to Chile