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Last week President Trump announced a landmark new trade agreement replacing NAFTA, a deal that he thinks will pour “cash and jobs” into the US economy. We don’t want to debate the merits of Trump’s approach to trade, but the world should always pay attention when the leader of the world’s largest economy starts talking about tariffs. Our newest visualization highlights exactly how big the U.S. economy is compared to the every other country in the world.Our visualization neatly slices the latest 2017 GDP numbers from the World Bank, released on 21st of September 2018, a few different ways. The...

Efficient government? Is this guy joking? His "budget cuts" are minuscule. Look at this video and it will put it all in perspective for you. His $17 billion in "cuts" amount to 1/2 of 1% of his reported $3.4 trillion budget. So it's about 50 measly cents for every $100 of spending. Big friggin' deal. It's equivalent to a drop of spittle.

Art as Propaganda for Evolution April 10, 2009 — Should a scientific theory be propagated by appeal to scientific evidence, or by appeal to emotions through visualization?  Nature this week contained two articles that shamelessly praised art as propaganda for evolution.  Surprisingly, one of them mentioned Charles Darwin as someone “at the cutting edge of visualization.” Endless Forms:  Carl Zimmer reviewed an exhibit currently at the Yale Center for British Art, Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts.1  The title is taken from the last sentence in the Origin where Darwin said that endless forms most beautiful...