Geez it got cold today

[conuly]

Brr!

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China’s go-to beverage? Hot water. Really.

Revelers celebrate Carnival in Venice

Like Bingo, but With Beef: Why Meat Raffles Are Blowing Up

“When you design roads, that is public health.”

The Word Definitions Each Country Looks Up the Most

When Grave Markers Are Stolen, He Speaks for the Dead

‘Not My President’s Day’: Thousands Gather in Protest Against Trump

Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating

Russia-linked propaganda campaign pushes to undercut German support for Ukraine

This data may vanish under Trump, so we charted it

Google Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticism (Well, fuck you too!)

California city criminalizes ‘aiding’ and ‘abetting’ homeless camps

Comments

[tozka]

The hot water thing is cute! Little cultural differences like that are so fascinating. What one culture takes for standard, another things is weird af.

[historicalmuse]

Omg *chokes on water* where the heck do you come up with these??

[conuly]

I subscribe to a lot of news newsletters.

[historicalmuse]

Ahhh ok ✅

[brokenallbroken]

Nice for WaPo to do something pro-social for a change.

Harvard scraped and posted most of the data.gov data sets before many of them were deleted from the official sites.

[jesuswasbatman]

The "meat platter" as a raffle prize is a tradition in working-class British pubs.

[conuly]

Is it a raffle with one item? Or a raffle with lots of varied items, one or more of which is a platter of meat? Or is it a whole raffle where all the prizes are meats?

[jesuswasbatman]

It's usually one of the prizes.

[maju]

It's also common in Australia.

[maju]

If you right-click on the name Gulf of America, a pop-up appears with one option being "Report a data problem". If you click on that you get the option to send product feedback. If you go to "Your opinion about Maps" you can then "Report an Issue" - i.e. tell them the name should be "Gulf of Mexico".

[siderea]

> The Word Definitions Each Country Looks Up the Most

Hmmm. I have no way to prove this, but I suspect that that's basically an indicator of what's trending on social media where. People don't look up words they know and are familiar with. The look up words they hear and are unclear on. That's certainly why people were looking up "gaslighting" in the US in late 2024. I hypothesize that we could characterize this map as showing what concept each country was wrestling with most at the time the data was from.

Like, I'm pretty sure most people in Latin America know what "resiliencia" means in the usual literal conventional sense and would not need to look it up, but I bet it became a buzzword of some political or social significance. Likewise, Nigerians know what "love" means, so it seems likely some social phenomenon involving the word is unfolding there. If Zimbabwe is googling "presumptive tax", they aren't doing it from idle curiosity: they are confronting one. (Putting "presumptive tax Zimbabwe" into Google autocompletes "2024 pdf download".) I'm guessing one can track the progress of Jools LeBron's video (and allusions to it) around the world by searches for the definition of "demure".

[conuly]

People don't look up words they know and are familiar with.

Speak for yourself!

But no, yeah, your comment sums up what's obviously going on, because most people aren't me and aren't looking up "take" just to see the etymology and if there's any weird niche usages they might be unfamiliar with.