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Monday, October 10, 2011

Diagram This


Posting yesterday's schematic reminded me of one of my favorite online literary journals, Diagram, edited by the truly original Ander Monson. Not only does Diagram feature cutting-edge writing, it also has a section entitled "Schematics" in every issue, in which you can find random charts, tables and pictures, like this one from Issue 10.5, called SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION OF HUMAN CHEEK AND OF CLEAR AND COLORED GLASSES (Matthew Luckiesh, Applications of Germicidal, Erythemal, and Infrared Energy, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1946):



The human cheek? Really?


Or this one, ANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS IN A POPULATION OF MALLARD DUCK
(J. D. Macdonald, Derek Goodwin, and Helmut E. Adler, Curiosities of Bird Life, Castle Books, 1962), from Issue 5.5.


If it pleases you to see just about everything under the sun represented visually (or in an attempted visual representation), if you are as fond of graphs and tables as I am, check out this online magazine. Oh, and don't forget to read the experimental writing Diagram features too.

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