Jenny Zhang wrote an essay about the recent scandal featuring a white author who used a fake Asian name to get published. It’s a powerful piece and I really can’t do it justice, but I’ve posted my favorite excerpts below, with minimal…

The New York Times had another piece that I felt it was my duty to comment on; this time, it was on the “Hyperbole of Internet Speak”. The obvious bent of the article really could not be ignored, as the print version of the article was titled: “Stop Your…

This was written for A Cartographer’s Story, a series of posts on “the power your maps have had within your own life”. I highly encourage you to check the rest out!

My freshman year of college I sent a dumb, pretentious email to a Geography professor on campus asking him for…

The Atlantic had a great article on how some captions, some how, manage to work for every single New Yorker cartoon. There was a new great one thought up recently, “Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” It even…

The UK (and the rest of the world) is laughing at former Prime Minister David Cameron over allegations that he had sex with a dead pig. It’s reminiscent of the Black Mirror premiere wherein the PM must do the act on live television in order to save the…

I came across this NPR article on using hexagons for tile maps recently. These types of maps, where states are abstracted to an equal-sized shape have been all the rage this past year, featured on NYT, FiveThirtyEight, and the like.

Last night I had the privilege to see Youssou N’Dour live in concert at Zellerbach Hall. It was quite the experience, mainly because of the way it differed from the traditional American concerts that I am used to. To prepare for the concert I had watched about fifty minutes of I Bring What I Love, the…

The Economist recently came out with another really interesting graph, though this time more so because of the content than the format.

CityLab had an article recently titled, “The Worst Architectural Renderings of 2015.” Contextualizing the piece was the submission phase of the potential Guggenheim Helsinki building where apparently tons of bad renderings were submitted. The point of CityLab was to convey that even…