More than half of Syria’s population has been displaced in what is one of history’s biggest refugee crises. This moving storymap from Esri shows you the places and the faces that have been uprooted, not just in Syria but across many troubled regions.
The Panama Papers has captured the world’s attention since last week’s revelation. Maps Mania shared “Panama Papers: Mapped”, which shows just some of the extent of the nations involved (it appears to be almost all of them).
Buzzfeed proved they can do much more than just cat videos and fail compilations- this week sharing a long probing article into United States spy plane operations, the technology they carry and the technology being used to track and share their movements for the public to see, as shown in the accompanying series of maps.
“Cities are like mortal beings. They are born, they rise up and they undergo various cycles before dying and being resurrected again.” Atlas Obscura paid homage to this Tocqueville quote by dissecting the new book Atlas of Lost Cities and its collection of maps of each fascinating site.
SpaceX made history last week when its Falcon 9 rocket stuck its first successful landing on a drone ship and Elon Musk did a perfect tweet of the footage accompanied by T-Pain and Lonely Islands song “I’m on a Boat (Motherf***er)”. Musk later deleted the tweet, but thankfully Tech Insider saved it for our enjoyment.
