Shoes that make everyone the same height
(Source: ingesidee.de)
April 17, 2012
April 18, 2011
February 23, 2011
"But recent studies have found large changes in cues and behavior when a woman is at this stage of peak fertility. Lap dancers get much higher tips (unless they’re taking birth-control pills that suppress ovulation, in which case their tips remain lower). The pitch of a woman’s voice rises. Men rate her body odor as more attractive and respond with higher levels of testosterone."
— The Threatening Scent of Fertile Women - NYTimes.com via Diego
January 22, 2011
"Throughout the 19th century, children of both sexes were dressed in long white gowns. When gendered palettes came into vogue in the first two decades of the 20th century, boys were assigned pink and girls blue. This was a nod to symbolism that associated red with manliness; pink was considered its kid-friendly shade. Blue was the color of the Virgin Mary’s veil and connoted femininity. In 1918, Ladies’ Home Journal advised mothers that “pink, being a more decided and stronger colour, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
December 17, 2010
November 12, 2010
November 11, 2010
Smarter people drink more, even when income, education, and social class are controlled for.
October 22, 2010
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!
October 11, 2010
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.
July 14, 2010
June 2, 2010
"The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now."
April 5, 2010
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.
March 31, 2010
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.
March 6, 2010
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.
