Tag: technology
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Where the wind blows: the world’s winds, and are wind farms in the windy places?
I mapped the world’s winds month by month, from the trade winds to the Roaring Forties and the monsoon, and set 5,344 wind farms against the wind at their sites. 82% of onshore capacity stands on ground windier than its country’s median.
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The half-life of fame: what happens to our attention after a notable person dies
I followed the English Wikipedia articles of 16,397 people who died between 2016 and 2023. In the month of a death the typical article is read 14.9 times as much as usual; two to three years later it is back to 0.98 of its old level. People who died young keep the most.
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Who gets talked about? What the public looks up on Wikipedia, and what Parliament talks about
I set a year of Wikipedia reading against twenty-one years of Commons debate for 1,425 UK towns and cities. The two mostly agree, but a town with a seat named after it gets 2.2 times the mentions, and Welsh places are talked about more, not less.
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How fast did news travel? Lincoln, Custer, the Titanic and Pearl Harbor in America’s newspapers
I followed four great stories through 13,233 digitised issues of 936 American newspapers. A daily printed Lincoln’s death the next morning, just as fast as the Titanic or Pearl Harbor. What held news back was the weekly press day.
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Neon Protocol v0.6.1: bases that matter, a harvester war and sharper battles
A quick follow-up to v0.6, shaped by my own first full game: bases now build around your Construction Yard, harvesters run themselves and are worth raiding, and the battle scenes are six times sharper.
