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Chart Shows How Transhumanism Went Mainstream
Over At Accelerating Future, Michael Anissimov has used Google Trends to do a quick analysis of how many people searched on the term "transhumanism" over the past five years. More »
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Handy Chart Explains What Happened To TNG After Spock Traveled Through Time
How can the Star Trek MMO, Star Trek Online, be planning on creating a whole universe based on the TNG/DS9/Voyager version of Trek, when Nero erased that timeline by traveling backwards? The MMO has released a handy chart to explain. More » -
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The Real* Reason Terminator Salvation Flopped
Forget about talk about disappointing writing and McG's choppy direction, there's only one reason why Terminator Salvation failed at the box office, and his name is Barack Obama. Don't believe me? I have a chart. More » -
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How Does Shark-Jumping Really Affect Audience Numbers?
When fans say a TV series has jumped the shark, do the masses really notice? We did some research on Battlestar Galactica's audience numbers to see if bad moments in the show drove audiences away.
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Devise Your Ultimate Star Trek Story — On Your Bedroom Wall!
When we posted our zany flow chart for how to create your own original Star Trek story, you asked if you could have it as a poster. So here you go! All proceeds go to our awesome designer, Stephanie Fox. -
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What Would Happen to Your City If It Got Nuked?
A new Google mashup reveals what kind of damage you could expect after a nuclear attack on your city, and highlights the effects of radiation spreading outward from the blast. More »
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A Map of UFO Sighting Hot Spots in America
Where do UFOs show their blinky lights most often in America? Now a handy map of UFO sightings since the 1940s offers a surprising answer. More »
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Comment by im.thatoneguy: I see nothing of interest in this data. Ohio is a top UFO spotting county... and has almost no 'special airspace.' Washington... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story
The original Star Trek only managed to make 80 episodes before running out of Dilithium. Not enough! So we mixed up the show's most frequent plot twists, to create a foolproof Trek story generator.
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Where the Robot Revolution Will Start
This chart from engineering research journal IEEE Spectrum shows you what the robot-to-human density is in several industrialized nations. Now you know where to look for the robot workers revolutionary front. More »
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Just How Is Everything Connected?
On Sunday, we showed you that all of your favorite SF franchises are in some way connected, and now, we'll explain just how it all happened. Yes, that's right: Annotations because you demanded it!
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Comment by Geekmansworld: "...just how Star Trek could meet X-Men without the world ending..." Easy: NOT CANON. 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Unofficial Theory Of Sci-Fi Connectivity
If you've ever suspected that all of your favorite shows, books and comics all took place in the same universe, you're probably right. And we've got a chart to prove it. Click through for awesome.
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Climate Change Map Helps You Predict the Next Eco-Disaster
We know that as global temperatures rise, increased storms, heat waves, and flooding will batter the Earth. A new interactive map from the Center for American Progress demonstrates the toll climate change will take on human beings by displaying regions that are at particular risk for different types of ecological disaster, and explaining precisely how future weather patterns will affect the population if global warming continues at its current pace.
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By Lauren DavisComment by Kishi: Let's check my hometown. Hmm, Phoenix could either suffer from flooding or a drought. Uh, but probably not... 4 Responses | Other threads
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WHO Predicts How We Will Die in 2030
A global rise in tobacco use in the next two decades will help heart disease remain one of humanity’s leading killers, while HIV/AIDS deaths will peak in 2012 before making a steady decline. This is according to an update of the World Health Organization’s “Burdens of Disease” report, which measures the current sources of human mortality and looks at how health and safety trends are changing worldwide. The result is that the WHO can tell us not only what is killing us now but also what will – and won’t – be killing us in 2030.
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By Lauren DavisComment by Rick Batty: Do the members of the W.H.O. have presecience? I think I missed the SciFi tie in. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Live Piracy Map Reveals Seas Are Still a Pirate's Paradise
Want to know where you're most likely to have your ship hijacked by pirates this year? Now you can, with the help of the International Maritime Bureau's "live piracy map," a Google map mashup that gives you quick, real-time details on all the acts of piracy taking place on the Earth's high seas. Just drill down by using the zoom slider, and click on a flag to see what kind of crime took place. All are labeled with the type of ship, as well as whether the pirates successfully hijacked it or merely boarded. Certain areas, like this one off the coast of East Africa, are pirate paradises. The seas around Singapore and Malaysia are also packed with pirates. Clearly the future bodes well for sea-going pirates, and for pirate-lovers who want to track their dastardly deeds. Live Piracy Map [via BLDG BLOG] Images via Live Piracy Map.
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A Maelstrom of Weird New Genetic Information
The human genome was sequenced almost a decade ago. Now we've entered the age of genomics — the study of what genes do, as well as what they don't. A terrific article by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times gives you a crash-course in cutting-edge genomics research, complete with some gorgeous charts like this one by Julian HonorĂ©, showing all the ways heredity flows through systems that defy scientists' expectations. More »
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Feel Confident, Worker Drones!
Artist Michael Lewy keeps pumping out surreal productivity charts from his dystopian office worker world "City of Work." Here's his latest, explaining the kind of confidence required to succeed in a feel-good, authoritarian bureaucracy that's amazingly similar to our own. [via City of Work Notes]
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Productivity Advice from a Dark and Terrible World
Do you want to maximize your productivity, push your career to the next level, and maintain a positive outlook at work? Artist and office worker Michael Lewy has a series of helpful charts for you. Lewy, who has an administrative job at MIT, spent the past year engaged in a surreal act of worldbuilding that resulted in City of Work, a collection of slide presentations, ad campaigns, and educational films that reveal the dark side of "getting things done." We've got more of his demented charts below. More »
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War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
There's been a huge spike in the production of zombie movies lately, and many of them seem to be inspired by war. Everything from 28 Days Later to Zombie Strippers make explicit reference to wartime, as did seminal 1968 zombie flick Night of the Living Dead. Is there really a connection between zombie movies and social unrest? We decided to do some research and find out. The result? We've got a line graph showing the number of zombie movies coming out in the West each year since 1910 — and there are definite spikes during certain years, which always seem to happen eerily close to historical events involving war or social upheaval.
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Statstical Likelihood That John Hodgman Will Ever Send Me a Naked Picture of Himself
Some questions are so speculative that they cannot even be asked in science fiction. They can only be asked of experts like John Hodgman, author and comedian. Luckily, BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin recently asked if I had any such questions to ask of Hodgman. And, well, like all healthy nerds with a taste for the boys, my question was this: "What is the statistical likelihood that John Hodgman will ever do nude self-portraits (please include a related analytical chart)?" At last Hodgman has answered, with both a chart (pictured) and on BBTV, below. More »
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Turn the American Presidential Debates into Abstract Data Structures
You can watch the American presidential debates and allow Barack Obama and John McCain to move you emotionally, or you can convert what they say into easily-analyzed data structures. C-SPAN's awesomely wonky graphic designers have created several easy ways for you to analyze as objectively as possible which candidate spoke the longest, interrupted the most, and used the word "taxes" more often. At left, you can see their word frequency chart, looking at which words were used most and when. We also have part of an elaborate chart showing which candidate grandstanded the most on various topics. More »
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The Most Accurate (and Inaccurate) Predictions About Homes of the Future
For decades, scifi movies and futurist documentaries have promised us domestic bliss via flying cars and housecleaning droids. We may not have home heliports yet, but several old movies actually got it right when it came to predicting the crazy gadgets that would be in our homes today. We've whipped up an infographic for you (just click it to expand) that shows what nine movies predicted, and how accurate they were.
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How Does Your Hero Measure Up On Our Wish-Fulfillment Checklist?
Sometimes you just want to escape into a heroic universe of wish fulfillment, with just the right kind of angst. And let's face it, some heroes do a better job of hitting your escapism sweet spots than others. We've put together a chart comparing the great action heroes, and seeing which ones hit most of the sweet spots of escapism.
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The Measure of a Robot
With lovable brain-in-a-box robot Wall-E enchanting us in theaters, and hot-bod Cylons seducing us in Battlestar Galactica re-runs, it's clear that we've come a long way since the robot evil/human good days of Metropolis and HAL. Today's pop culture robots are all over the map when it comes to their good or evil natures — we practically need a chart to figure out which bots are nasty, which are friendly, and which are floating in an ambivalent in between. Just to help you figure it out, we've actually made that chart. We've plotted where 27 of the most intriguing bots of the past century fall using a Cartesian coordinate system to map where they fall on a scale of good to evil, and a scale of being humanoid-shaped to being AIs-in-a-box.
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10 Scariest Asteroid Attacks on Earth: The Near Hits and Approaching Terrors
When it comes to comet impacts, the denizens of Earth may be living on borrowed time. Of course, comets are only about half the problem — there are plenty of asteroids whizzing around the inner solar system too — so we decided to have a look and see just how close modern society has come to destruction since 1900, and how close we're going to come over the next 100 years. The answers, provided in our nifty infographic, aren't reassuring.
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