The Fast-Changing Chemistry of New, Dangerous Drugs Today’s illicit chemists can quickly cook up drugs far more dangerous than fentanyl.

The Fast-Changing Chemistry of New, Dangerous Drugs. Today’s illicit chemists can quickly cook up drugs far more potent than fentanyl, by @13pt.com, Matt Richtel
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The Weight of Rain My talk at Visualized.

“The Weight of Rain” is back! Video of my 2014 talk disappeared for years, but Visualized kindly pulled a copy from their archives: style.org/visualized/

I’m free, let’s start a band

How to Give a Talk My farewell talk at The New York Times.

After 20 years of NYT graphics, I’ve switched back to freelance and personal projects. My farewell talk is here: style.org/talk/

Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department? Type designers weigh in on the recent decision to replace Calibri with Times New Roman in official documents.

It’s not often the general public gets a crash course on the considerations of type design, but this is a delightfully geeky article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An illustration showing a hypothetical State Department letterhead in two different fonts.

So about that font news ... gift article:

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a map of Roman roads showing a pilgrim’s route from Bordeaux to Jerusalem and back

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped — gift link:

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Monarch butterfly tracks in today’s NYT.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

"There’s nothing that’s not amazing about this." Fact check: true. Also, a @danfagin.bsky.social byline in the NYT, with amazing graphics from @13pt.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

A Manhattan Gunman Had C.T.E. Here Is How Doctors Search for It. (Gift Article) A definitive diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., can only happen posthumously through a weeks-long process of removing, processing and studying brain tissue.

We visited the Mount Sinai brain bank to understand the long process of preparing brain tissue to diagnose C.T.E.

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my desk at the NYT in 2006

20 years ago today I started work at the NY Times. I’d studied design and typography, but everything else was a crash course: journalism, cartography, CMYK printing, editing, etc.

in the NYTimes app, there’s a map link (“Tracking the Spread”) at the top of nearly every measles article, or a search for “measles” will bring up the main Measles Outbreak page

Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article) As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.

National outbreak map? We have one, with a new detail map for Ohio: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One of my early talks around 2010 used unladen swallows as an example, but it was met with blank looks — none of the students had heard about the movie. Had to retire those slides!

Blue Ghost’s Long Day on the Moon The sun has set on the Blue Ghost spacecraft, ending a successful mission to the moon.

A Lunar Lander’s Busy Day: Eclipse Photos and Rock Collecting

1st day of (Northern Hemisphere) spring, so time to re-re-re-post the best #dataviz I’ve ever done. 365 images of the terminator taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. over the course of a year. Originally made for the NASA Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...

Viewed from above the solar system, the seven other planets will fall within Earth’s line of sight at sunset, and will not be obscured by the sun.

The current planetary alignment is more of a loose parade (the planets are spread across about 120 degrees of sky). But now is a great time to enjoy bright Jupiter, Mars, and Venus; with a little effort, you can spot naked-eye Saturn & Mercury too. 🔭🧪

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Thank you, this kind of data is often timed around federal calendars or deadlines, so it could take a while to register a noticeable $ change

Lake Vanda, Antarctica

We landed near the edge of Lake Vanda in 2016 — it's super saline liquid under the thick ice, and there are photos of a “Lake Vanda Swim Club” from the 1980s