I don't expect a conservative backlash, on the contrary Francis's Pontificate has weakened the conservative wing considerably. Given that 80% of the voting cardinals were appointed by Pope Francis, I would expect them to elect a successor that continues in the same direction, perhaps even a more radical one.
During his pontificate Francis also made a lot of efforts to bring in new groups into the corridors of power. Not only by his appointment of cardinals, but also e.g. by reforming the Curia with Praedicate evangelium.
Largest party by electoral district in the German federal election
Largest party by electoral district in the German federal election
Australian rules football vs. rugby league clubs in Australia, divided by the so called Barassi line
Handedness of rail traffic: left hand and right hand operation world wide.
Not visible in the map, but interesting to note, is that in France the trains normally drive on the left, except in Alsace where they drive on the right as a legacy of the time the province belonged to Germany.
All fun and games until it happens with nazism instead of slime.
How the North American grey squirrel has displaced the native red squirrel in the UK.
Map of the Chagos Archipelago, constituting the British Indian Ocean Territory. UK has just announced that it will hand over sovereignty to the islands to Mauritius.
Source on UK ceding the islands to Mauritius
Wikipedia article on Chagos Archipelago
Another map displaying the main islands zoomed in.
cal≠kcal
1 gallon gasoline contains 31 million small calories, while the human caloric requirements are given in large calories. 1000 small calories = 1 large calorie. So the calculations are off by a factor of 1000. The confusion stems from the fact that both are commonly referred to as "calories", for some stupid reason.
So in reality you would have to drink another gallon in just 2-3 weeks.
Just to be clear, the story about the couch does not appear to be true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/
Unemployment rate in Belgium (2020)
In the map it can be clearly seen that the unemployment is higher in Wallonia than in Flanders. This is largely due to the fact that Wallonia has historically relied on its heavy industry, such as steel and coal, which has moved abroad the last decades. In fact, the Sambre and Meuse valley which was the industrial heartland in Belgium thanks to its coal resources, can be clearly seen on the map.
It is also interesting to see how the distribution of unemployment has changed throughout the years, as seen on these maps:
TL;DR Far-right on the rise more or less everywhere based on the estimates, green parties on the decline. Let's just hope it will not get too dire consequences in the five years to come.
TIL that science does still not fully understand how cycling works
I found this map of dominant tree species in Germany while investigating it:
https://atlas.thuenen.de/layers/geonode:Dominant_Species_Class
Indeed, there is are significant difference between the maps. Perhaps most notably in Baden-Würtemberg where there seems to be a lot of fir. But I also think there is a a clear correlation between the maps. I also find it interesting to see the correlation between the suitable habitat for oakwood and the absence of forests.
The original ElectroBoom?
Habitat suitability of European forest categories
More info about the map and the forest types here. The forest types are described in chapter 6.
The map does not necessarily show what kind of forest actually grows in different places, if any, but rather which forest type you could expect to find there naturally, if it would be forest. But it probably matches reasonably well with what actual forests look like, although most of Europe is of course not covered by forests.
Here's a map over forest cover in Europe:
Map of largest party in the recent election in South Africa
The graphical abstract is even better than the title:
The decline and recovery of the European wolf population from 1800 to 2018 (no data for Russia and Belarus).
Map is a bit confusing since it has no data for Russia and Belarus, but there are wolves there. Here is another map with population numbers as well:
Also, pretty infographic about wolves from the same source:
International recognition of Palestine, with today's latest additions of Ireland, Norway and Spain
Cervantes did it first:
Still got nothing on this guy that made a ride that takes like 3*1078 years to finish
Who the fuck made this inforgraphic?
It's from Wikipedia. Admittedly, I didn't do much fact-checking and just trusted it. But of course you can always contribute by improving the map.
Cool map! I spent quite some time looking at the many details. Also interesting to see that the Chinese were so aware of world geography at the time, even if it was thanks to exchanges with Europeans.
You think so? My impression of the Netherlands is that the staple food is fries with mayonnaise, maybe with some broodje kroket in between. In general the diet consists of a lot of butter, white bread and sugar. To me it does not seemt surprising at all that they eat least vegetables in Europe.
It has often been noticed that differences along the historical borders exist in Poland. See for example this article.
Here's another article discussing the differences, and interestingly claims that the difference between the election result in former Prussian and Russian parts of Poland is likely due to other factors.
It's a subspecies of brown bear.
Thanks for pointing that out. You're right. I messed up with the title. What i intended to say was that the scale was relative. But the title is corrected now.