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 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytimes.com #ToxicDrugCrisis

“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/

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

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/...

So about that font news ... gift article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped — gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s...

Monarch butterfly tracks in today’s NYT. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

"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...

We visited the Mount Sinai brain bank to understand the long process of preparing brain tissue to diagnose C.T.E. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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.

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 Originally made for the NASA Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...

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. 🔭🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...