Charles Packer

a k a  Charles V. Packer

I like to know things.  --Aldous Huxley

• MEDIA: What News? -- A quick-loading news aggregator

• IMAGES: Trees -- Seasonal changes in time-lapse (step-through added in 2021)

• IDEAS: Voting for non-voters -- Three simple rules for voting (revised in 2020)

• PLACES: D.C. subterranean secret -- 10-year-old mystery site gets permanent building

• PLACES: D.C. bored -- Is the Navy secretly tunneling under Washington?

• RESEARCH: Culturomics -- Predict tumult by counting negative words in the news?

• RESEARCH: John McPhee's UFO -- 1978 event explained

• EVENTS: Inauguration 2009 -- A million on the Mall? Look again.

• PLACES: NSOF from the inside -- the striking architecture of my workplace 2006-2009

• MEDIA: Iraq prisoner abuse photos -- was the wired-prisoner picture juiced up?

• EVENTS: Cicadas -- A few photos of the 17-year cicadas in Maryland, 2004

• MEDIA: Innumeracy from the Vatican -- counting people in a news photo

• PLACES: Where are the bunkers? -- Locating unacknowledged government sites in the Washington, D.C. area

• EVENTS: The Pentagon, Sept. 11, 2001 -- Some photos of the aftermath of the terrorist attack

• MEDIA: The weirdness of news -- News photos are surprisingly ambiguous

• RESEARCH: Visualizing large diffuse communications networks
  • The Erdös Collaboration Graph -- co-authors of a great mathematician
  • A citation network -- the community of brain scientists

• MEDIA: The modern UFO -- born in 1947, but not at Roswell

• MEDIA: Fireball ignored -- about the news coverage of the fireball of 1972

Last modified: October 1, 2021

Twitter: @cvpacker