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Ron Paul on Meet the Press

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Monday 24 December, 2007 at 1:24 am. It's been filed in the Culture + Nation + Politics category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Tim Russert is breaking Ron Paul’s balls the whole time yet Ron does a pretty good job of keeping his cool. I’d like to see an interview like this conducted over correspondence where each side has more time to consider and prepare their responses.

Too Darn Hot

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Friday 10 August, 2007 at 12:37 pm. It's been filed in the Environment + Health + Life + Nation + World category. {Share Your Thoughts}

No, it’s not your imagination, or latent global warming anxiety/guilt. OK maybe a little of the latter, but it is damn hot outside — at least here in the Southeastern US. With heat indexes in excess of 110 degrees Fahrenheit it’s important to keep cool.

Global Politics in 30 Seconds

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Thursday 26 July, 2007 at 2:45 pm. It's been filed in the Animation + Humor + Nation + Politics + World category. {6 Comments}

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Two Centuries of Residential Growth in Seconds

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Monday 04 June, 2007 at 11:05 am. It's been filed in the Animation + Architecture + Economics + Environment + History + Information Design + Life + Nation + Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

Trulia Hindsight takes property construction data and animates the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities in the US over the last couple centuries.

Predictions from 1900

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Monday 23 April, 2007 at 12:57 am. It's been filed in the Culture + History + Nation + Technology category. {Share Your Thoughts}

“These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 - a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.”

Singled Out

Justin Ruckman published this entry on Friday 13 April, 2007 at 2:53 pm. It's been filed in the Information Design + Life + Nation + Psychology + Sex category. {Share Your Thoughts}

A National Geographic study reveals the distribution of single men and women around the country. Blue and red represent an excess of single men and women respectively. It’s middle school all over again — the boys grouping up on one side of the continent and the girls on the other.