"Satellite imagery ... provides an unprecedented look at four facilities across Cuba that have equipment capable of collecting SIGINT. Some are decades old but appear to have undergone upgrades...others have materialized only within the past few years." www.csis.org/analysis/chi...
According to a new OECD study, about one-fifth of adults perform no better in tests of maths and reading than would be expected of a primary-school pupil www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Featuring my YIKES! Chart of the Week:
Bin gerade über diesen (dieses?!) Starter Pack gestolpert:
Iconic
Couldn‘t agree more. (And good job on those short-notice tickets! Hope you had a great time)
Wonderful day ahead for 🇫🇷. Notre Dame will reopen on time, 5 years after it was gutted by fire. I was lucky enough to have visited the inside this week. It is stunning, the blanched stonework of the vaults and pillars as they would have been in medieval times
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
A little dive into how Taylor Swift could have made even more money from the Eras tour.
(Still dying by a thousand cuts that Vienna is missing from this chart…)
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...
Also love this illustration of the unassuming (but vital) border crossing between Sudan and Chad
The little maps of new graves are stomach-churning but well-considered: drawing one circle per grave is a less dehumanising approach than the often-tempting minimalist alternatives (eg, drawing outlines over the areas with new graves)
It can be hard to visualise conflict without forgetting that there are actual people behind the numbers. This uses a sample of 100 people living in Zamzam
Worthy of my first post here is this thoughtfully designed explainer on the disastrous situation in Sudan by @graphics.reuters.com
www.reuters.com/graphics/FAM...
