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Global population density graphic made by Alasdair Rae (@undertheraedar) founder of Automatic Knowledge. It shows world population density in 3d, no land is shown on the map. tmblr.co/Z352CuZK0Qcs0W…

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have. Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. tmblr.co/Z352CuZIxLT6CW…

The most viral election map of 2020 was actually made by a Belgian man in 2019 tmblr.co/Z352CuZFR-tfWi…

The Flaming Lips Perform in Giant Bubbles on Colbert A quarantine performance for the ages. doctorcrowd.tumblr.com/post/634845370…

📷 Domino Park Introduces Social Distancing Circles to Adapt to the COVID-19 Crisis  While all public spaces around the world are trying to innovate and implement safety measures to open during the coronavirus pandemic, Domino Park has... tmblr.co/Z352CuYTXQPg0m…

📷 Plaza Life Revisited This research project reconsiders writer William H. Whyte’s Street Life Project and seminal study The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980). It sought to understand how the types of new public spaces have changed... tmblr.co/Z352CuYTWWUJim…

Surreal Drone Tour of a Pandemic-Emptied San Francisco tmblr.co/Z352CuYOCliQWa… via @kottke

Ghost City Photos of a Usually Bustling Shanghai During Coronavirus Outbreak For her series One Person City, photographer nicoco has been taking photos of Shanghai that emphasize how deserted the city was due to the COVID-19 outbreak tmblr.co/Z352CuYOCJMiKW…

📷 The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities Tom Vanderbilt, April 24, 2020 (Photo: Ernst Haas/Getty) Along streets suddenly devoid of traffic, pedestrians get a fresh look at all the space that motor vehicles have commandeered. The... tmblr.co/Z352CuYNiSc6Cq…

Why Bees Could Be the Secret to Superhuman Intelligence. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2l5ZD9r via @BBC_Future

The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella tmblr.co/Z352Cu2l5YN1E via @bbgvisualdata

Crowded beach in Summer. The nature of cities. 1955. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2l1yWHa

From lizarding to lingering: how we really behave in public space. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2k-Stf_ via @guardian

A Bird’s-Eye View of How Protesters Have Flooded Hong Kong Streets. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2jf0vwU via @nytimes

The Motorbikes of Taiwan. A mesmerizing short film from Hiroshi Kondo. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2jeofoi

A Series of Maps Reveals the Difference in How Cities are Perceived by Tourists and Locals. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2jeoBTN

There are benefits to viewing Europe as a collection of cities and regions rather than as a group of nations. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2hpmMYC

Margarita Nikitaki Takes Claustrophobic Photographs Of Athens’ Cityscapes. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2honDTS

📷 The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change Photo: Honduran migrants heading to the... tmblr.co/Z352Cu2hDeKVQ

First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News. tmblr.co/Z352Cu2gxd_Qu via @techreview