A Flickr set with visualizations of word frequency. The word “crisis” has surpassed “hope” on only a handful of occasions — one of them is right now. Trends also show a general increase in the mention of superheros over time. Pictured is “Communism” (bottom) and “terrorism” (top) since 1981.
New York Times Word Frequency Visualizations
Lindsay Meisel
Lindsay Meisel is the director of communications at Edupath, an educational technology company in Berkeley, California. She has picked spinach at sunrise on an organic farm, written about Nietzsche and environmentalism for the Breakthrough Institute, and saved things instead of selling them at Underground Advertising.