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How Game Controllers Evolved [Infographic]

Today's game controllers aren't totally original. There was a long, generational evolution that got them there, as this incredibly comprehensive infographic from Pop Chart Lab shows. The Famicom...

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IMDB's Greatest Movies Ever, Beautifully Organized By Genre [Infographic]

You probably have your own choice for Greatest Movie Of All Time. But what do the masses say? The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has a set of picks, rated by users, that you can peruse. And if you want...

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Your Complete Guide To White Wine [Infographic]

So you're about to order a bottle of tasty white wine! Do you want dry, very dry, or off-dry? And what ratio of melon-ness to butterscotch-ness do you want? What about saltiness? Stonefruit-ness? If...

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Which Of These TV Dads Is Most Like Yours? [Infographic]

TV Dads via blip.tvIn celebration of Father's Day, take a romp through this infographic following the colorful paths into the lives of television's favorite papas: Homer Simpson, Tony Soprano, Don...

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Where To Hide When The Ecopocalypse Hits [Infographic]

Thanks to climate change, our oceans could rise by as much as 20 or 30 feet in the coming centuries. You can either build an ark (which sounds like an awful lot of work) or high-tail it to higher...

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The Greatest Heists In History [Infographic]

Well-executed heists make for good stories, but history's greatest heists, as this infographic published by SimpliSafe shows, are so unbelievable they're almost art. Take, for example, this: a man on...

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How To Get Rich In Your Country Of Choice [Infographic]

How do the rich get rich? The answer depends on geography.This infographic, designed by studio BoldFace and published by Independent Newspapers, breaks down, for various regions, how the rich earned...

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The Miami Heat's Stunning Season In One Image [Infographic]

The Miami Heat won the NBA Finals this year, which means their road to victory gets extra scrutiny. Catch up on their entire season with this broad infographic designed and published by the sports...

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Where Edward Snowden Could Fly Without Getting Hauled Back To The U.S....

Where Could Snowden Be? David Yanofsky/QuartzThere's some confusion about where, exactly, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is right now. He was going to board a flight to Cuba, didn't, and then...

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Where To Eat If You're Hungover In A Major U.S. City [Infographic]

Whoops. You drank too much, and now it's the next morning and you need to find the highest concentration of chicken and waffles in the area or your body will surely melt away to dust. Thankfully, Yelp...

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The Periodic Table Of Humanity's Worst Vices [Infographic]

The Periodic Table of Social Issues Dorothy From the design studio that created these cinematic star charts and musical color wheels comes a periodic table of human nature's ugliest attributes....

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Obesity In The U.S., Visualized

Obesity In The U.S. Lih ChenInspired by a recent decision from the American Medical Association to start recognizing obesity as a disease, designer Lih Chen created this infographic, mapping the...

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The Prettiest Visualization Of Social Media Chatter We've Ever Seen

To commemorate the launch of 4G services in the UK, artist Brendan Dawes was commissioned to create these beautiful "digital portraits" of 11 cities. Really they're more like "social media user...

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A Visual Guide To New York City's Massive Data Trove

NYC Open Data Chris Whong The NYC Open Data initiative has dumped a ton of New York public records--school test scores, court districts, even laundromat maps--on one website. But the site is not...

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How To Become Indiana Jones With Online Courses [Infographic]

The first massive open online course, or MOOC, launched in September 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Via the Web, anyone could attend the class on learning theory, and 2,300 people...

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Engineering The Ideal Olympian: The Games Of Risk

The 2010 Winter Olympics had the same overall injury rate as the Summer Olympics in 2012—for both, it was about 11 percent. But Torbjorn Soligard, an officer at the medical…

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Famous Novels' First Sentences, Mapped [Infographic]

Maybe you spent a week in school making these, but the ones in your class almost definitely didn't look as good. The folks at Pop Chart Lab, which now has an oeuvre of…

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The States People Want To Get The Hell Out Of [Infographic]

Gallup is out with a new poll and accompanying map measuring responses to this question: "Regardless of whether you will move, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move to another state, or...

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How Mountains In Our Solar System Compare [Infographic]

Hawaii's Mauna Kea is a gigantic mountain—but it doesn't quite stack up to some of the other landforms in our solar system. Here's a look at our neighbors' most impressive…

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The Top Patent-Holders In The U.S. [Infographic]

_This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of _Popular Science.

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