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 …
In my daily routine of scouring the web for interesting and nerdy things, I stumbled across perhaps my new favorite …
I love comparisons and unit conversions. Most of the times they are fun. For example, if Daniel Day-Lewis touched an …
Chances are, if you meet an alien, it will look nothing like you. It won’t understand you, and you won’t …
For World Mental Health Day, I put together a few revealing statistics about the state of mental health in the …
This is perhaps the most elegantly employed infographic I have seen. Also, cheetahs are flippin’ awesome. Infographic designed by Jacob …
A good visualization takes a complicated issue and uses clever visual aids to make it more clear. The beauty of …
Hopefully the above infographic clears up this woefully common question.
If I was going to create a comic that outlined the power of science, the joy of discovery, and the …
There is little to say other than that, yes, you should feel incredibly insignificant after perusing the graphic below. It’s …
With the frightening lack of regulation that is given to a health product merely if you call it a “supplement,” …
Occam’s razor suggests that the more likely explanation for some phenomenon is the explanation which requires the fewest number of …
Forgive the morbidity for some interesting data. [Via Gizmodo, Flowing Data]
Notice how many atheists there are? Yep, it’s not just me whose skin burns whenever they touch holy water.
Don’t fall for the naturalistic fallacy. Marketers know very well that we think “natural” products are somehow always better than …
Pretty darn deep.
Bet you didn’t know that more people die from high school football practice every year than die from shark attacks.
[Via MicroCosmologist]
In an age of over-fishing and crashing marine stocks, it’s difficult to keep track of which fish are ethically kosher …