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Illustrated quotes from “To The Contrary” Podcast from Charlie Sykes with Justin Wolfers Oct 26, 2025. “Our world is so upside down.”

How polarized are we? It depends on where you look. A three part survey finds that local government is far less affected by division than at the national level — even after the 2024 presidential election. Details below that didn’t make the cut but provide more context. For The Carnegie Reporter.

The word anxiety derives from the Latin substantive angor and the corresponding verb ango (to constrict). Here's just a few thinkers on anxiety throughout the ages. “The presence of unpredictability, uncertainty and uncontrollability all provoke anxiety pretty automatically,” says Sally Winston, co-director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland. “It’s a signal of either an internal or an external threat." For Time and time.com

Recent sketches for a tech editorial article on “What can we do about AI's colossal energy thirst?”⚡🦾⚡Similar to crypto usage, training models for AI, including Midjourney, also expend crazy amounts of energy, most of which is no longer reported. For Aventine.org

If you've taken penicillin, had an MRI or used GPS, here’s some women scientists to thank! 🔭🔭🔭 Some design nuggets for #WomensHistoryMonth Personal Project 2024

In the summer of 1973, America was embroiled in Vietnam and Watergate, and desperately needed something 'Red, White and Blue’: Big Red and his signature checkered silks provided it. Fun facts on the 50th anniversary of racehorse Secretariat’s Triple Crown win, and his historic run at Belmont. Personal Project 2023

Financial Firsts for Women! ✨ 💸✨ Striving toward economic independence and equality for women has been a centuries-long project in the United States—and there are many more battles to fight. Celebrating just some of the trailblazing women and their financial firsts and feats. Personal Project, 2023

Financial Firsts for Women! ✨ 💸✨ Striving toward economic independence and equality for women has been a centuries-long project in the United States—and there are many more battles to fight. Celebrating just some of the trailblazing women and their financial firsts and feats. Personal Project, 2023

In every region, farmers and scientists are trying to adapt an array of crops to warmer temperatures, invasive pests, erratic weather and earlier growing seasons. Here's a chart showing how East to West, additional factors like flooding, drought and disease are affecting our food supply. Includes artichokes, chickpeas, apples, blueberries, raspberries, cherries, kiwi, peaches and watermelon. For the NY Times Climate Issue 2019

Fun facts for Girl Scout cookie season! ✨🍪 ✨ In my graphics profession I'm constantly asked to translate big numbers into comparisons that are *digestible* ;) so I played around with what ChatGPT could do with my weird prompts. It stumbled a bit and still needed a lot of fact checking, but provided some intriguing leads I could follow up on for inspiration. GS cookies are a brand that’s changed a lot with technology and the times, but still a relevant one, here’s some by the numbers. Personal Project 2023

Some fun facts from a personal project, President’s Day 2021

Preparing for Cyberattacks and Technical Problems During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Election resiliency plans must take into account new realities created by the coronavirus. A guide for Election Officials. For the Brennan Center for Justice, June 2020

Recent polls and surveys reveal details about how we can’t live—or work—without our pets. For PawPrint magazine 2022.

How Brooklyn Could Make Room for Amazon’s Second HQ: Sunset Park! Williamsburg! The Innovation Coast! Developers scramble to line up attractive campus sites to lure the online giant. The winner, Amazon has promised, will be rewarded with a $5 billion investment and as many as 50,000 new jobs with an average salary of more than $100,000. For Brooklyn Bridge News

Alternate sketches for NY Amazon HQ logo

Whether you are working, looking for work or simply absorbing a new reality, you should be comfortable. Here’s how to do it with stuff you may already have. For the New York Times Style Section, April 2020

State and local election officials must begin making critical purchases in a matter of weeks in order to ensure free, fair, and safe elections in November. For Brennan Center for Justice, 2020

You Too Can Play the Handbag Stock Market. Don’t think of those totes and saddle bags as just pretty accessories. They could also be an investment portfolio. For The New York Times

From car accidents to murder, humans kill more humans each year than any animal does—approximately 1.6 million. After that mosquitoes rank the highest. For TIME

Drones have diversified into a menagerie of forms and sizes. Here a look at eight. For TIME and time.com

Sketches for the Podcast logo “From Day One: How Brooklyn Entrepreneurs got their start. “ For thebridgebk.com, Brooklyn Business News

The aliens are already here. Some 50,000 alien species have invaded the U.S.—and thanks to increasing global trade and the effects of climate change, that number will keep rising. Many invasive species can find a niche in a new environment without wreaking that much ecological havoc, and some have even proved beneficial. But there are other plants and animals that seem determined to displace as many native species as they can while causing considerable economic damage along the way. For TIME and time.com

Fish are the last wild food, but our oceans are being picked clean. Can farming fish take the place of catching them? For “Food Infographics”, Taschen Books, 2018

Illustrations for Delia’s catalog

Though most countermeasures to limit bodily damage through space travel have been achieved through exercise, communication, nutrition and negative pressure garments, scientists have had to relearn the basics about the radical differences between medical care on Earth and off it. Here’s a look at some of the most vexing health risks. For TIME and time.com

Infographics for Elmhurst1925, premier plant-based beverages, including almond, cashew, walnut and hazelnut milks and competitor comparisons. For Civic-US

The Offshore Hall of Fame! The estimated amount of money held in tax havens worldwide ranges from $8-32 trillion dollars, most of it legally. Here’s some prominent figures embarrassed by financial links to tax havens.

Character studies for Game of Thrones Apple News story, exclusive video titles and print feature ahead of Season 7 on HBO.

New chefs and new tastes are transforming the iconic hamburger. How do the classics stack up to the upstarts? For TIME

At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize from the director’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Though Gollum is 60 years younger in The Hobbit, he is already torn between his desire to be good and his dark addiction to a certain bijou. The biggest difference between Gollums: in The Hobbit, he looks more grotesquely human, more real, than ever before. Advances in motion capture rewrite the rules of filmmaking. For TIME and time.com

According to George Burgess, director at the Florida Program for Shark Research. "The U.S. is prime territory for human-shark interactions due to the country’s hundreds of thousands of miles of coastline and the American habit of relaxing on the beach," Burgess explained. Though the risk of being bitten by a shark remains extremely low, the U.S. leads the world in number of unprovoked bites, and most are associated with surfing and board sports. For TIME and time.com

Various illustrations for Popular Mechanics, Men’s Health, and TIME

Small energy companies are designing flying turbines to harness wind power at low altitudes. Here are five leading startups. For Popular Mechanics

Various icons for online and print publications including Men's Health, Time, Car & Driver, Sports Illustrated, and The Toronto Daily News

Various airline and space graphics for Popular Mechanics and TIME

Ironically, the healthiest choice on the menu may, in the long run, be the most serious danger to your health and to the planet. Here is the unbelievable truth about salmon. For Best Life Magazine

Surgical illustration including breast tissue, lymph nodes and various tumor dyeing and removal procedures, for Einstein College of Medecine