[Image: Dagoosh!] If you've ever passed a Subway and thought, "Wait, didn't i just pass one 20 seconds ago?" this map of Subway locations in the U.S. from Dagoosh! won't surprise you. Aside from the lack of a fiery red glow, It doesn't look very different from the McDonald's locations map. The farthest you can be from a Subway is 138 miles, between the towns of Austin and Eureka. [via Buzzfeed]...
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[Map: Weather Sealed] In an attempt to find the most remote piece of wilderness in the lower 48 states, Stephen Von Worley of the blog Weather Sealed created this visualization that represents distances to the nearest McDonald's. Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car! [via Chris H.]...
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[Image: Good.is] Good magazine's latest Transparency features this infographic illustrating the meat consumption of the highest and lowest meat-consuming countries in the world. Denmark is number one with 321.7 pounds per capita per year, and Bhutan is the lowest at 6.6 pounds. Related Caffeine and Calories Chart Behold the Bacon Pig...
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Information Is Beautiful The Buzz vs The Bulge from data visualization blog Information is Beautiful plots the calorie content of beverages against their caffeine content, along with a few common non-caffeinated foods to use for comparison. Related An Illustrated Graph on Tasty Desserts Funny Pie Chart A Pie Chart of Pies...
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Food writer Michael Ruhlman and his wife, Donna, put together a chart illustrating common dough and batter ratios to give a quick overview of how much flour, liquid, egg, fat or butter, and sugar goes into pasta, biscuits, pancakes, and more. Go to his blog to buy an 11-by-14-inch print of the chart for $20. He'll put up a PDF version later for those who want to print it at home. Related: Michael Ruhlman's New Book: 'Ratio'...
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Even if you don't like percentages and figures, the financial crisis has caused everyone to be a little more aware of numbers. Lucky for us, the idea of number-crunching can be converted to chocolate-munching. Tina Roth Eisenberg of the blog Swiss Miss, clued us in to Mary & Matt's chocolate pie chart. At five and a half ounces, the chocolate breakdown works to, 70 percent milk, 20 percent dark, and 10 percent white. How do you like those numbers? I just wish there were something like this when I was studying the math section for the GREs, I am sure my score would have been higher....
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The Bacon Flowchart knows what your heart desires; if you tell it that you don't want bacon, it will insist that, actually, you do want bacon. It will also insist that you put on some pants before cooking the bacon....
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