An amazing "urban gymnastics" video... you know the guys running on rooftops, bouncing off walls... literally! There are a few boring moments as the video starts, but stay thru them, as it's worth it. It's like those moves Jackie Chan does in his movies, but just down the street... amazing stuff.
Those russians take the capoeira gymnastics like those I taped in Buenos Aires to the next level.
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Election Results "Cartogram" Maps
Now this is facinating, 1. from a political perspective, 2. from an information design perspective... (my field).
The common US red vs blue election map gives the superficial impression that the "red states" dominate the country, since they cover far more area than the blue ones. However, as pointed out by many others, this is misleading because it fails to take into account the fact that most of the red states have small populations, whereas most of the blue states have large ones. The blue may be small in area, but they are large in terms of numbers of people, which is what matters in an election.
We can correct for this by making use of a cartogram, a map in which the sizes of states have been rescaled according to their population.
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