Fracking in California

California's Getting Fracked is a story map created by Faces of Fracking to illustrate the impacts of fracking in California. The map takes you on a tour through some of the state's most high-intensity fracking sites responsible for some of the most serious environmental and health concerns.

As you scroll through the story the locations of oil & gas wells in the LA Basin are added to a

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3D Models in Mapbox GL

Andrew Harvey has created an impressive demonstration overlaying a 3D model on top of a Mapbox GL map. His Add a 3D Model to a Mapbox GL JS Map places a 3D model of a radio telescope on top of an interactive map.

Adding a 3D model to a Mapbox GL map allows the user to view the model from lots of different angles. If you right-click on the map you can rotate around the model and adjust the angle

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The UK's Secret Photogenic Hot-Spots

If you want to increase the number of your followers on Instagram then you could start by posting some stunning photographs of beautiful locations that nobody else has heard of. Luckily for UK photographers the Carphone Warehouse has created an interactive map of some of the UK's most stunning but little known locations. It has identified locations in cities across the country that are both

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Top 10 profits of idol albums in the first half of 2018

1) BTS - $33.252 million

- Fake Love (1,750,117 sold; $19)

2) Wanna One - $27.574 million

- Boomerang (832,141 sold; $19)

- Light (639,995 sold; $18.50)

3) SHINee - $7.95 million

- Shinin' (185,102 sold; $19)

- The Story of Light (109,855 sold; $15.50)

- I Want You (92,646 sold; $15.50)

- Our Page (86,389 sold; $15.50)

4) Twice - $5.979 million

- What is Love? (341,705 sold; $17.50)

5) NCT - $5.597 million

- Touch & 3 more titles (294,610 sold; $19)

6) EXO-CBX - $5.585 million

- Blooming Day (360,362 sold; $15.50)

7) GOT7 - $4.969 million

- Look (331,320 sold; $15)

8) Seventeen - $4.051 million

- Thanks (181,247 sold; $21)

- Thanks SMS (10,000 sold; $24.50)

9) Blackpink - $3.41 million

- DDU DU DDU DU (178,983 sold; $19)

10) Infinite - $3.378 million

- Tell Me (80,875 sold; $24)

- True Love (57,495 sold; $25)

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Pann: Top 10 profits of idol albums in the first half of 2018

1. [+210, -16] BTS is really a wall... They earned that much with a single album. They'll set a record when they release a repackage.

2. [+71, -22] GOT7 is also a single album.

3. [+69, -13] GOT7 hit daebak with only one mini album ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

4. [+63, -27] Who said NCT is a flop? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+57, -1] Big Hit is building a golden tower with BTS alone. They're smaller than the big 3 so their actual profits are really big compared to the investments. First of all, SM is too huge so their investments are also too huge. Their actual profits are laughable. If Big Hit's profit is 35%, SM's profit would be less than 3%. Besides, Big Hit doesn't even have any bank loans. BTS is a real cash cow.

6. [+56, -1] Wow, I actually find Infinite more amazing. Most of those groups are less than 5 years old but Infinite is almost reaching their 10th year. They're still earning $33.8M... Amazing.

7. [+56, -1] SHINee is in their 11th year and Infinite is in their 9th year, amazing... ShiHiIn is definitely on a long-run.

8. [+50, -7] Jaehyun looks handsome in the NCT picture.

9. [+49, -2] Infinite's albums are the most expensive ones but they're still up there. I'm proud that they're doing well in their 9th year. SHINee is amazing, too!

10. [+45, -10] NCT? Wow... People call them a flop all the time but they're not. I really thought they were a flop but they're doing much better than I expected.

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How Big is the Mendocino Complex Fire?

The Mendocino Complex Fire has now become the largest fire in California's history. This has led to an outbreak of mapped visualizations of the fire. Some of these maps have attempted to visualize the size of the fire and how it compares to previous Californian fires.

The Guardian's report on the fire includes an animated map which shows how the fire has spread since it started on 27 July. How

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Upvote or downvote for makeup products

Pann: Upvote or downvote for makeup products

OP: [+754, -113] No-sebum powder

1. [+356, -176] Peripera Ink The Airy Velvet vs. Tony Moly Liptone Get-it

2. [+281, -150] Innisfree flat eyebrow pencil vs. Aritaum matte formula eyebrow pencil

3. [+274, -76] Kiss Me mascara!

4. [+171, -7] Bbia lip tint

5. [+103, -17] Eglips powder pact

6. [+79, -15] The Face Shop Ink Lasting Foundation

7. [+74, -3] 3CE velvet lip tint

8. [+69, -4] Etude Glow-on Base

9. [+69, -40] Peripera Ink The Velvet

10. [+52, -27] Clio Kill Cover

11. [+44, -20] Kiss Me eyeliner

12. [+39, -2] Aritaum Mono Eyes

13. [+37, -38] Double Lasting Foundation

14. [+36, -12] Luna concealer

15. [+33, -6] Senka perfect whip cleansing

16. [+30, -2] Estee Lauder double wear foundation

17. [+28, -23] Matte lips vs. moist lips

18. [+28, -2] Canmake blusher

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Red Velvet's stages are bad for a big company?

Pann: Red Velvet's stages are really bad for a big company

1. [+216, -35] Bad choreography + the members can't dance

2. [+206, -17] Seeing this, the choreo seems bad and the members also can't seem to dance. Irene is a dancer in Red Velvet but... Anyways, a lot of their title track choreos are weird. There's no fun in watching Red Velvet's stages.

3. [+185, -19] Some of the members can't dance at all.

4. [+119, -3] I liked Bad Boy... I think the members just can't pull of the choreos. Except for Seulgi, all of them seem to be bad dancers.

5. [+83, -26] The members have short arms and short legs, so their dance looks weird.

6. [+78, -4] Red Velvet has the worst choreos of all famous girl groups.

7. [+71, -2] Their dance is indeed a bit weird...

8. [+71, -1] 7/7 was legendarily terrible... SM needs to fire the choreographer.

9. [+59, -1] Joy is too tall compared to other members and it ruins the balance. It's like having a Nine Muses members in Crayon Pop. Also, the choreos are bad and the members can't dance. But their songs are so catchy. I still listen to Rookie Rookie.

10. [+52, -1] They can't really dance except Seulgi. At least Irene seems decent. Joy stands out because she's tall. Wendy had never danced until she joined SM. Yeri was a trainee for a long time but she's so-so.

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How skinny female idols' legs are in real life

Pann: Female idols' legs in real life

1. [+155, -1] I really want the broadcast cameras to change. I know it's impossible but it doesn't make sense that the celebrities look 1.5 times thicker than they actually are.

2. [+110, -2] They look perfect on TV but in real life, they look weak and thin.

3. [+71, -1] I think it can't be helped. We think 45~50kg is the normal weight for girls and 55kg makes people go "hul..."

4. [+26, -0] They were being harsh on these girls' bodies? I feel so bad and sad.

5. [+24, -6] Ah... They don't even look pretty. They look like starved refugees. It's too much.

6. [+23, -0] In real life, you'll only notice their bones like like anorexic patients. I don't understand why the cameras make them look fat.

7. [+17, -4] Wow, Yoona looks no joke in the first picture...

8. [+15, -1] In real life, those tiny and skinny girls look like rats. You'll only notice how skinny they are. Those who look chubby and tall on TV look the best in real life regardless of the gender.

9. [+15, -0] They have to be skinny like that to look good on the cameras. They have no choice but to lose weight. I feel so bad.

10. [+13, -4] Wow... Yoona though... Is she a doll? She's so pretty.

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Explaining Droughts in Taiwan

It rains quite a lot in Taiwan. However despite all that precipitation the country also often suffers from water shortages. One reason for these water shortages is illegal land use in reservoir catchment areas. CommonWealth Magazine has created a wonderful story map to visualize how such illegal land use around the Shihmen Reservoir has led to a huge silt build-up in the reservoir, severely

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Mapping American Anti-Semitism

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish non-profit organization, has released an interactive map documenting over 3,000 incidents of extremism or anti-Semitism in the United States in 2017 and 2018. Their new H.E.A.T. Map shows the locations of incidents of extremism, anti-Semitism and terrorism across the whole country.

Incidents on the map are color-coded by the type of incident. If you hover

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