Culture
What We Can and Can't Learn From 2,000 Years of Migration Data for 'Western Intellectuals'
Researchers recently compiled birth and death data for famous North Americans and Europeans.
A visualization project profiled in the most recent issue of Science aggregates migration patterns of European and North American intellectuals over the last 2,000 years. Viewed all at once, it provides a fast-paced look at the historical emergence of cultural centers across both continents: