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The rules of invention from Slate / L.V. Anderson, David Haglund, Natalie Matthews-Ramo and Jim Pagels.
Feelings that cannot be expressed in English from peiyinglin.net / Pei-Ying Lin.
Two points, with drama from the Washington Post / Alberto Cuadra and Bonnie Berkowitz.
Understanding social media - with bacon from coreysmith.ws/blog / Corey Smith.
The four kinds of dog from National Geographic / John Tomai.
From teaspoon to gallon and back again from sblattindesign.wordpress.com / Shannon Lattin.
Multi-touch paintings from Exhibition at N2 Galeria / Evan Roth.
E-mail: help for addicts from Forbes / Wendy Macnaughton.
The quantified self from Feltron.com / Nicholas Felton.
How to score a seat in first class from the New York Times / Sergio Pecanha.
A better food label from the New York Times / Mark Bittman, Bill Marsh, Matthew Dorfman, Erich Nagler, Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss.
How to be happy from online / Gustavo Vieira Dias.
II. US. Paths through New York City from flicker.com/photos/walkingsf / Eric Fischer.
Who reads erotica? from Goodreads blog /Patrich Brown and Seth Goldstein.
Gay rights in the U.S., State by State from the Guardian online / Feilding Cage and Gabriel Dance.
The pontification of top 40 form Billboard / Gavin Potenza.
The amazing morphing campaign money map from It's All Politics blog on npr.com / Adam Cole.
Facebook: a risky investment from the New York Times / Amanda Cox and Seth W. Feaster.
Flu season from Popular Science / Wesley Grubbs, Mladen Balog, Kemper Smith, Nick Yahnke, Katie Peek, and Ryan Bradley.
And the Oscar goes to ... New York City from New York / Stevie Remsberg, Rebecca Berg, Amanda Dobbins, Eric Sunderman, and Thomas Alberty.
Sexism visualized from the "The Next Economy," in the National Journal / Brian McGill.
Who ESPN likes to talk about from the New York Times online / Ritchie S. King, Kevin Quealy, Graham Roberts, and Alicia Desantis.
200 years of innovation from Time / Heather Jones and Andrea Ford.
What Sandy left behind from the New York Times / Archie Tse
What not to say on the campaign trail fromTime / Heather Jones, Nick Carbone, Dan Macsai, and Nate Rawlings.
The bastketball hall of fame - fixed, from ESPN the magazine / Carl Detorres, Munehito Sawada, John Korpics, Jason Lancaster, Bruce Kelley, Tv Wenger, Ross Marrison, Anthony Olivieri and Jim Keller.
The Last forty-five seconds from the Washington Post / Todd Lindeman.
Who gave Obama victory? from the New York Times / Amanda Cox, Alicia Desantis, and Ford Fessenden.
American education gets a grade from The Atlantic / Agnieszka Gasparska and Nicole Allan.
The Breaking Bad body count from TDYLF blog / John D. Larue.
What you are buying now from The Atlantic / Agnieszka Gasparska and Stephen J. Rose.
The extremely rich, city by city from the New York Times / Alica Desantis, Ford Fessenden and Rob Gebeloff.
Mixology from popchartlab.com / Ben Gibson and Patrick Mulligan.
What were the gayest (and straightest) Super Bowl halftime shows? from deadspin.com / Tom Socca.
Jost how fast is Bolt? from the New York Times / Graham Roberts and Kevin Quealy.
Gun ownership rates by country from the WorldViews blog at WashingtonPost.com / Max Fisher.
III. The Material World. Where twisters touch down from UX.Blog / John Nelson.
Ten artists, ten years from ArthurBuxton.com / Arthur Buxton.
Deepest of the deep from xkcd.xom/ Randall Munroe
Map of a new America from fakeisthenewreal.org / Neil Freeman
Seven minutes of terror form Nature / Eric Hand, Jasiek Krzysztofiak, Wesley Fernandes, and Kelly Krause.
Seasonal produce calendars from chasingdelicious.com / Russell Van Kraayenburg.
Cat power from National Geographic / Jason Treat and Bryan Christie.
Heat streak from Popular Science / Katie Peek.
The titanic disaster, step by step from National Geographic / Kaitlin Yarnall, Matt Twombly, and Nick Kaloterakis.
Mind control from the Atavist / Damiel Scogin.
Change of Venue from ESPN the magazine / Ben Gibson, John Yun, John Korpics, Jason Lancaster, Amy Bachmann, Bruce Kelley, John B. Morris, Joel Weber, Jim Keller, and the ESPN Stats & Info Group.
The great dying from the New York Times / Bill Marsh.
The shuttle's moving day from the Los Angeles Times / Tom Reinken, Raoul Ranoa and Les Dunseith.
An army for the afterlife from National Geographic / Pure Rendering GMBH, Juan Velasco and Ann Williams.
The disappearing desktop from Fortune / Nicolas Rapp.
Precision wine from Australian wine labels / Nicholas Felton.
Your microbiome from the New York Times / Jonathan Corum.
Planets everywhere from Science American / Jan Willem Tulip.
The Top Ten Best American Interactive Infographics of 2013 / by Erick Rodenbeck.
Wind map from hint.fm/wind / Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg.
The money in politics navigator from The Wall Street Journal / Andrew Garcia Phillips.
Women as academic authors, 1665-2010 from chronicle.com / Brian O'Leary, Josh Keller, Jevin West and Jennifer Jacquet.
A network of violence from pbs.org / Tom Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Andrew Golis, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano and Ashlee Lougheed.
The red state, blue state shuffle from The New York Times online / Mike Bostock, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox.
The L.A. Fire Department: too slow from the Los Angeles Times online / Ben Welsh, Robert J. Lopez, and Kate Linthicum.
Census dotmap from bmander.com / Brandon Marin-Anderson.
Bear 71 from nfb.ca/bear71 / Jeremy Mendes, Leanne Allison, and the Digital Studio of the National Film Board of Canada.
New York's carbon emissions in real time from YouTube and carbonvisuals.com / Adam Nieman and Chris Rabet.
Road to victory from the New York Times online / MIke Bostock and Shan Carter.
