Stories

Interactive stories that use data, visualisation and exploration to reveal patterns, comparisons and ideas at human scale.

57 million people own half the world

See how the world’s population is distributed, then switch to wealth to reveal how dramatically ownership shifts toward the richest.

Explore how the United States population grew, shifted between states and changed in composition from the pre-contact period to today.

Same ball, same height, different gravity. Drop a planet on its own to feel the difference, or drop them all together and watch the race.

Follow the moving line between day and night as it sweeps the Earth, and compare how local time changes around the world.

Explore hundreds of ways humanity says hello, from familiar greetings to endangered and historical languages across cultures, scripts and centuries.