There's a very similar illustration in VD16 C 54: viewer.onb.ac.at/107CA5AE/139

There are roughly 2,000 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf with more than 20,000 seafarers on them, according to the International Maritime Organization. Most have been stuck on board more than a month, because fewer than 200 ships have managed to slip through the Strait of Hormuz. In normal times, 20% of the world’s oil flows through the narrow waterway to global markets, along with critical supplies of natural gas, fertilizer and other cargo shipments. It’s unclear when the vital shipping lane will get back to normal. Fresh vegetables and freshwater are running out on many ships, so the sailors are using social media and very-high-frequency marine radios to share survival tips and tactics. Some Chinese crew members have filmed themselves collecting condensate from air-conditioning units to shower and wash laundry. Others have taken to fishing over the side of their tankers, catching tuna, squid and largehead hairtail to cook.

WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

This project by the Austrian National Library et al. makes excellent use of multimodal embeddings: onit.oeaw.ac.at

LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks YouTube video by Reuters

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

Thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it! I don't have time to put something together at the moment, but I really like what you're doing and will definitely keep it in mind for the future!

Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)

Just came across this wonderful (and freely available) documentary on the great Eric Hobsbawm: youtube.com/watch?v=wVQ4...

Glad to hear that! If you need the high-res gif, just let me know!

Ever wondered how Britain's shipping network evolved throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries? Have a look at this visualization based on a large new dataset of voyages reported in Lloyd's List!