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Alex Selby-Boothroyd
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Head of data journalism at The Economist
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Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
wow, pangea is 114 years old today 🎂
OTD in 1912, Alfred Wegener delivered a lecture propounding the theory that our modern continents were formed by the splitting and drifting apart of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangea.

Due to his failure to offer a plausible mechanism, he was widely ridiculed.

🧠🗃️⚒️ 🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Question for everyone who put things off "until the new year": what are we talking here? Jan 31st? End of the quarter??
January 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Literally every time
January 6, 2026 at 11:34 AM
A lovely detail in our review of The Night Manager
www.economist.com/culture/2026...
January 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
memento morning
This elaborate alarm clock from the 19th century prompted people to think about the shortness of life. When the alarm bell chimed, a small card running up the skeleton’s spinal column retracted to make the jaw open and the eyes roll.

It's now at the Science Museum, London. #skystorians
January 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
wait, *marco rubio* is going to run man utd?
January 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Happy Back-To-Work Day!!
January 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Liked this. Riz Ahmed was excellent, and it's the same director as the fantastic Hell or High Water (2016)
www.imdb.com/title/tt1153...
Relay (2024) ⭐ 7.0 | Action, Drama, Thriller
1h 52m | R
www.imdb.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
StackOverflow's Over
I guess StackOverflow is done.
January 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Convince friends you smoke 60-a-day by briefly touching turmeric
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Lol
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Trump is Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose
January 4, 2026 at 12:43 PM
These are not serious people
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Helping the kid revise for her mocks and never more glad that I put underfloor heating in my summerhouse (19°C in here, -2°C outside). Literally hothousing her.
January 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Venezusa
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.

polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Does he think the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded for the calendar year of 2025?
January 3, 2026 at 12:27 PM
"What is the charge? Having oil? Succulent Venezuelan oil?"
January 3, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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Forgot to post this one
January 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Gorgeous charts and a great story
New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output.

Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I wrote that!
January 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Nice
January 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Lot of fireworks tonight. Over 300 days til Bonfires Night, people!
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM