Data Visualization

I Mapped 8.5 Million Research Papers. The Map Isn’t Even the Best Part.

📅 July 12, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

I mapped 8.5 million research papers into an interactive WebGL atlas with LLM summaries, entity linking, and citation graphs. But the real value isn’t the visualization — it’s the MCP server that lets AI agents query the entire corpus. We’ve been so focused on helping humans read papers that we missed the bigger shift: agents that can navigate 8.5 million papers at once change what literature review even means.

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The 22,000-Year Scroll That Shatters the Biggest Myth About Climate Change

📅 July 11, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

An XKCD comic forces you to physically scroll through 22,000 years of Earth’s nearly flat temperature history — only to hit a terrifying vertical spike at the end. It’s a visceral, exhausting experience that shatters the myth of gradual climate change and reveals the Holocene as a fragile, temporary window we are actively slamming shut.

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