Why do historical paintings have so many squirrels in them?

9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics.

Is it okay to cook other people’s food?

MUMPS – The Most Important Database You (Probably) Never Heard Of.

How Surveillance Stifles Dissent on the Internet.

New research shows that social-media users who said they have “nothing to hide” from the government often avoid posting controversial opinions on Facebook.

“The chance of getting a viral infection is 0.0005. Out of 10,000 people, about how many of them are expected to get infected?”

Can Data Literacy Protect Us from Misleading Political Ads?

Colour Wheels, Charts, and Tables Through History.

“A chronology of various attempts through the last four centuries to visually organise and make sense of colour: from simple wheels to multi-layered pyramids, from scientific systems to those based on the hues of human emotion.”

Meet the Badass Women Cartographers of Early North America.

The Hidden Histories of Maps Made By Women: Early North America.

The first part in a series exploring little-seen contributions to cartography.

Visualization of sunrise / sunset times over the course of a year.

The interactive Moore’s Law.