theatlantic:

Trump’s Birther Antics Are Driving Away His Liberal Audience

He may have gotten President Obama’s attention, but Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy is presumed by most people to be a stunt designed to goose ratings for his television show, “Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC. But while Trump has gotten plenty of airtime by suggesting, wrongly, that the president was not born in the United States, Nielsen rating for “Celebrity Apprentice” are lower than they were a year ago — and dropping fast. One reason Trump’s audience is abandoning him may be that, according to demographic research of primetime television viewers provided exclusively to The Atlantic by National Media Inc., a firm that places political ads on television, the audience for “Celebrity Apprentice” is among the most liberal in primetime television (see graphic above). Rather than add viewers, Trump foolishly appears to be driving them away.

Read more at The Atlantic

theatlantic:

laughingsquid:

Beard Madness

theatlantic:

globeandmail:

Crude oil imports and exports around the world, and the global shipping choke points

So many numbers!

theatlantic:

Top Importers of Libyan Oil

Libyan oil spreads out from the nation’s ports to the rest of the world. Italy is, by far, the largest importer of Libyan oil. US imports from the country have fallen in recent years, but China, France, and the United Kingdom have all been buying more Libyan oil.

The essential components of a Presidential motorcade

via Kurt White

theatlantic:

Alexis Madrigal:

The Knight Foundation released a report today detailing how technology was employed in the aftermath of last year’s earthquake in Haiti. The infographic above summarizes some of the key areas, but there’s a full report available, too.

Read the full article here.

An overwhelming bunch of interesting recession charts from the great team over at theatlantic

laphamsquarterly:

Celebrity Deathmatch: Words may fail Norman Mailer, but fists never do!

(via theatlantic)

theatlantic:

The Periodic Table of Rejected Elements

[Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, The Atlantic, August 1999]

theatlantic:

Just in case you ever needed to keep a severed head alive:

“This invention involves a device, referred to herein as a ‘cabinet,’ which provides physical and biochemical support for an animal’s head which has been ‘discorporated’ (i.e., severed from its body),” the patent’s abstract explains. “This device can be used to support a discorped head with oxygenated blood and nutrients, by means of tubes connected to arteries which pass through the neck. After circulating through the head, the deoxygenated blood returns to the cabinet by means of cannulae which are connected to veins that emerge from the neck.”

We thought about posting the accompanying video of a living, breathing dog’s head, but it’s a little unsettling. Click through to check it out.

so that’s how you do it!