Jonathan Schifferes

Just published my live map of the london underground! (link below)

WATCH: Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest U.S. Senate speech. Booker's marathon speech breaks the previous mark held by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond and his filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that stretched for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

Free exhibition showcases 500 years of rare and beautiful maps ianvisits.co.uk/articles/free-… If you like looking at old maps, then you'll love a new exhibition that's recently opened in the City of London, showing a range of maps dating from the 15th century onwards.

Housing is expensive in the UK - much more so than the OECD average. It also accounts for a disproportionately large amount of low-to-middle income households' spending. In fact, the housing affect is so large that across the full range of goods and services, Britain is a relatively more expensive country for poorer families than for the population as a whole.

"Regions such as the upper Midwest, parts of New England, the Ozarks, the exurban South, & the Mountain West have experienced significant gains, driven by an influx of retirees & the rise of remote work"

'Oxford Circus Underground Station' (1905) by Maxwell Ashby Armfield (Government Art Collection)

Multiple Canadian suburbs you've never heard of are building more skyscrapers than all but three US cities.

Housing crisis latest: if we filled Wembley Stadium with a representative random selection of Londoners - of all ages - we'd see almost 2,000 in the crowd not quite "going home" after the event...this is the number that are homeless.

Over last 4 weeks, 🇬🇧Britain imported 11% of it's electricity. The breakdown of imports was: 🇫🇷France: 24.6% 🇩🇰Denmark: 20.0% 🇧🇪Belgium: 20.0% 🇳🇴Norway: 19.4% 🇳🇱Netherlands: 13.9% 🇮🇪Ireland: 2.1%

The Netherlands is one of the most sci-fi places on earth The Dutch deserve a new word: hydropunk Over centuries, they have created & maintained one of the most advanced water management systems on the planet

10. Microscopic look at a bee stinger vs. the point of a needle

Conspiracy theorists who keep saying there’s “no way” the hurricane could have intensified so much without some human cause are so close to getting it.

On Friday 21st March 2025 at 02:50 UTC the sun will finally set on the British "Empire"

3. Topographic map of the US

@DanielHewittITV single...parents? (mostly mums)?

More homes ➡️ lower rents

Teen driving restrictions that can save lives: new evidence @voxeu 👉 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… @PurdueEcon @cepr_org

House price to income ratios

Ukrainians show "I'm Fine" installation at Burning Man festival- BBC The brightly colored letters, 32 meters long and 7 meters high, are made of road signs and signboards riddled with bullets.