Shoes that make everyone the same height
(Source: ingesidee.de)
— The Threatening Scent of Fertile Women - NYTimes.com via Diego
Smarter people drink more, even when income, education, and social class are controlled for.
I bet there are more great ways to make venn diagrams out of google suggest results.
UPDATE: Now you can make your own Google Suggest Venn Diagram!
I collected as much data as I could find today about cat populations in order to show the relative popularity of cats around the world. I was hoping to find data including stray cats, but that pretty much doesn’t exist.
What I take from this is that Germany and Spain are particularly cat-hating europeans, that the United States is aberrantly cat-philic (and are infecting Canada), and that Japan is not nearly as cat loving as I had thought from cats’ presence in their pop culture.
I don’t like the way Google Docs does footnotes in published spreadsheets, but they are all there at the bottom.
No word yet on the cat populations of antarctica or space.
US television watching by age group, average hours per day. (source)
I couldn’t find a graph of this online, so I made my own.
OKCupid’s analysis of the interplay of liberals and conservatives when economic and social issues are separated. Lots of great analysis that concludes that the Democrats are doomed because they have a much greater range of ideologies they have to pander to.
Comparing Socioeconomic Mobility Across OECD Countries
The US of A is not the land of rags to riches. Move to Denmark to more than double the chances that your kids will move up in the world.