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Charts & Graphs

Charts & Graphs time

Chart showing the cost of items per minute.

Dollars per Minute

What it all costs, minute by minute.

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Charts & Graphs water

Poisoning the Well

Watery warfare.

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Charts & Graphs states of war

The World’s Largest Armies

Troop sizes from around the world.

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Charts & Graphs comedy

Funny one-liners from action films and the actors who have said them

All in the Delivery

Classic one-liners from action films.

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Charts & Graphs intoxication

Laws forbidding drugs or alcohol.

Prohibition

Laws forbidding drugs or alcohol.

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Charts & Graphs sports & games

Etymology

The idioms we owe to sports.

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Charts & Graphs animals

Special Collections

Special Collections

Animals on display.

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Charts & Graphs the future

Reading into It

Divination and fortune-telling.

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Charts & Graphs sports & games

Money Ball

The economy of Yankee Stadium.

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Charts & Graphs states of mind

Detail of numbered list

Possible Outcomes

Superintelligence scenarios, from best to worst.

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Charts & Graphs energy

Moving Heaven and Earth

Historical theories about geological energy.

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Charts & Graphs medicine

Pandora’s Box

The medicinal origins of illegal synthetic drugs.

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Charts & Graphs magic shows

Transmutations

Alchemy through the ages.

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Charts & Graphs trade

Found Objects

Long-distance trade routes revealed by archaeology.

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Charts & Graphs about money

The Price of Life

What it costs to get a new organ.

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