Where's the cheapest place in the world to buy weed? Who's got the most over-priced cigarettes? Where can I get a beer for a dollar? We attempted to answer these questions and more with this breakdown of things that are bad for us.
If physicists want to measure the antineutrinos produced inside the Earth, they’ll need to avoid the antineutrinos produced by nuclear reactors on the surface.
Almost every aspect of American city living creates a divide by class and income.
In 1790, Thomas Bird became the first person to be executed under the United States Constitution. Since then, the U.S. state and federal governments have executed thousands of people by hanging, firing squad, electric chair, lethal gas, and lethal injection. This map illustrates the progression of death penalty execution methods by state since the beginning in the late nineteenth century.
The swift annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by Russia is one of the biggest international incidents of recent years, with global condemnation leading to sanctions and the worrying possibility of armed conflict.
Crimea is hardly home to the only territorial dispute in the world right now. In the map above, every country in pink is involved in a dispute over its national borders in some way or another.
What has been a question for international leaders is now a question for cartographers: How will Crimea be shown on maps?
The world's largest source of human knowledge cedes Crimea to Russia on the map, but the debate is far from over.
Redrawing national borders may feel like a historical relic that belongs to an earlier century, yet Crimea's crisis shows there are still places that don't fit neatly on the map — and may not for years to come.
With New Jersey taking action to ban Tesla from selling its cars there, the Garden State has joined with Arizona, Texas, Virginia and Maryland in making laws only an auto-dealers association could love.