MapFight is a fun little web application, which superimposes the maps of two selected countries to show which one is larger and by how much. Â And the best part is that you don’t even to stick just to countries – the continents are in there as well, so you can compare Europe to Asia, or even Russia to Europe.
VentuSky is an interactive weather forecast map. Â It shows temperatures, winds, rain, thunderstorms and more.
This is one of those things that I love about the Internet.  When you are wrong, the Internet doesn’t just gently mention it.  It absolutely destroys you, shoving the reality so hard down your throat, you forget how to breath for a while.  And then, next time, if you haven’t killed yourself yet, you think long and hard before saying anything out loud.  If you have a half a brain or more, of course.
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National Geographic published its selection of the best photos of 2016.
Here is a gallery of National Geographic’s 52 best images of the year—curated from 91 photographers, 107 stories, and 2,290,225 photographs.
Some are, as always, absolutely amazing.  Some are not so much.  For a global collection of pictures, it’s surprising to find the word “Yellowstone” mentioned 13 times on the page.
This one is my favorite:
Of those with people in them, I liked this one:
Here’s a great visual on how human population changed over time.
It took 200,000 years for our population to reach 1 billion. And only 200 years to reach 7 billion.
Via kottke.org.