The New York Times has a great feature today about the cost of inflation and they did it all with an innovative and interactive graph. Check it out.

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On October 14, 1947, Brigadier General Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first human to ever break the sound barrier.
The aircraft that General Yeager flew was the Bell-X1 which he named after his wife. His X-1 was called “Glamorous Glennis.”
Sound is described as vibration that travels through an elastic medium as a wave
Speed of Sound [...]

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Ok, so I was playing around on Google Maps a few days ago looking for someplace different to eat, when I noticed there were blue lines on some of the roads around my apartment. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that my area of very Northeast Maryland was visited by the Google Van. [...]

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I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to die. Of course slipping away in your sleep may be most people’s idea of the perfect way to go, but not me. I would rather go out with a bang–decapitation is nice–but what would something like that feel like? New Scientist has done [...]

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