The History of Science Fiction
In my daily routine of scouring the web for interesting and nerdy things, I stumbled across perhaps my new favorite …
Category Archives: Infographics
Shark Attacks in Perspective
I love comparisons and unit conversions. Most of the times they are fun. For example, if Daniel Day-Lewis touched an …
First Contact: Don’t F**k This Up For Us
Chances are, if you meet an alien, it will look nothing like you. It won’t understand you, and you won’t …
The State of Mental Illness
For World Mental Health Day, I put together a few revealing statistics about the state of mental health in the …
The Cheetah: Nature’s Speed Machine
This is perhaps the most elegantly employed infographic I have seen. Also, cheetahs are flippin’ awesome. Infographic designed by Jacob …
Explaining the process of science with a few dots
A good visualization takes a complicated issue and uses clever visual aids to make it more clear. The beauty of …
If we evolved from monkeys…{Infographic}
Hopefully the above infographic clears up this woefully common question.
Welcome to Science, You’re Going to Like it Here
If I was going to create a comic that outlined the power of science, the joy of discovery, and the …
THE UNIVERSE IS GARGANTUAN {Infographic}
There is little to say other than that, yes, you should feel incredibly insignificant after perusing the graphic below. It’s …
Snake Oil Supplements
With the frightening lack of regulation that is given to a health product merely if you call it a “supplement,” …
Occam’s razor does not favor a climate change “hoax” {Infographic}
Occam’s razor suggests that the more likely explanation for some phenomenon is the explanation which requires the fewest number of …
Here’s what a year of fatal car crashes looks like {Infographic}
Forgive the morbidity for some interesting data. [Via Gizmodo, Flowing Data]
The Big Numbers {Infographic }
Notice how many atheists there are? Yep, it’s not just me whose skin burns whenever they touch holy water.
Beware “Greenwashing” {Infographic}
Don’t fall for the naturalistic fallacy. Marketers know very well that we think “natural” products are somehow always better than …
How do science and religion view creation? {Infographic}
How Deep is the Mariana Trench? {Infographic}
Pretty darn deep.
Another Scale to Make You Feel Insignificant {Infographic}
Death in Perspective
Bet you didn’t know that more people die from high school football practice every year than die from shark attacks.
Looking for Life: Human Priorities {Infographic}
[Via MicroCosmologist]
Which fish (or mollusks or cephalopods) are okay to eat?
In an age of over-fishing and crashing marine stocks, it’s difficult to keep track of which fish are ethically kosher …
