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How Lego bricks went from five colors to nearly 200

The Washington Post analyzed Lego’s palette to explore what the color system says about the evolution of the company.

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What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you.

Fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read.

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The U.S. has caused the most global warming. When will China pass it?

China will soon pass the U.S. as history’s biggest carbon dioxide emitter.

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You’re one in 8 billion

The world population just hit a record. Here’s where you fit in and how the world’s demographics are expected to change.

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Won’t address climate change? How about for the guy who designs heat maps?

My color scale was selected with care. Each color had a meaning.

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Visualizing Europe’s heat wave with melting popsicles

Watch these popsicles melt and learn more about what European countries are doing to deal with the heat wave.

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Who’s afraid of elemental power?

Fear of nuclear energy has made it harder to stand up to dictators and slow down global warming. Is it time for a rebrand?

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This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real

Journalists analyze some Ukraine war videos pixel-by-pixel to make sure they aren’t bogus.

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Reconstructing seven days of protests in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death

Hundreds of hours of social media live streams present a different and more complicated view of what was happening in Minneapolis.

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What if all covid‑19 deaths in the US had happened in your neighborhood?

Insert your address and find out what would happen if your neighborhood was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

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The virus that shut down the world

From migration to trade, the disruption created by covid-19 is erasing decades of economic gains achieved through globalization.

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These simulations show how to flatten the coronavirus growth curve

Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”.

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Bloomberg's immense spending gets him 30,000 online ads a minute

We visualized Mike Bloomberg's truly staggering ad spending budget.

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What Bloomberg's $11 million Super Bowl ad would cost you on your budget

Very few of us can comprehend what it's like to be uber-wealthy.

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The illustrated encyclopedia of sleeping positions on a plane

When flying in economy, it's no small feat to fall asleep, yet many travelers try their best anyway.

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Fantastic fall foliage and where to find it

This is starting out as a complicated season for leaf peepers.

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How does an autonomous car work? Not so great.

here are more than 1,400 self-driving vehicles being tested in 36 states and the District.

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The Washington Post's guide to manipulated video

The Internet is increasingly populated with false and misleading videos.

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Mapping America's wicked weather and deadly disasters

The fear of losing everything in a natural disaster sits in the back of our minds no matter where we live.

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24 Magazine Covers About Climate Change

For Earth Day, we created a different way to read about climate change: an all-cover issue of The Washington Post Magazine.