Why the site is named this...
The Onion
A Tribute to Hans Rosling
Wealth & Health
Most Misleading Statistic of All Time
you better click!
Flatland
a romance of many dimensions
How Learning Works
the neuroscience of repetition
Amino Acids → Proteins
the genetic code
The Stationary Bandit
why rulers let people prosper
Entropy
why order becomes disorder
Distributions
how things are spread out
Curves
patterns of change over time
Moral Tribes
why do our values differ?
Moral Foundations
why Americans don't get along
The Loudest 10%
how a minority dominates social media
Elephant & Rider
the divided mind
Antifragility
what doesn't kill you...
Cognitive Reflection
test your intuition
524 Years
history visualized
Bliss Symbolics
a visual language
Perception Gap
how we misunderstand each other
The Wave of Adoption vs. Rejection
smoking in America
Football
NFL & college visualizations
Voronoi
a visual algorithm
Hormones
what do they do?
Enzymes
biological catalysts
Nutrition
what's in food?
Cooking Times
how long to cook things
Box Breathing
calm your mind
Meditation Wheel
the scattered mind
Spanish
learning tools
Baltimore Stockbroker
survivorship bias revealed
Survivorship Bias
the planes that came back
Too Many Opinions
how many opinions you hear per day
Base Rates
start with what's typical
Polarization
caught in the crossfire
Myers-Briggs
16 personality types
Enneagram
9 personality types
Random Walk
spatial probability
DNA
genotype to phenotype
Concentrated Benefits
why bad policies persist
Van Gogh
681 paintings chronologically
Golden Spiral
how flowers build themselves
SVG
scalable vector graphics explained
Ant Trails
emergence from simple rules
Hotelling's Law
why competitors cluster together
Inductive Reasoning
one example is all you need
Air Density
why balls fly further in Denver
Where Humans Fit
the five great apes
Ranked Choice Voting
how your backup choices matter
Sampling
how sound becomes numbers
Deck of Cards
52 cards, 4 suits
Theory of Mind
the Sally-Anne test
Baby Morality
helping vs hindering
Women & Work
what men feared vs reality
How Hashing Works
foundation of modern computing
Self Improvement Pornographers
life is hard for all of us
Grifters
they take over everything
Fuck The Scroll
there is no more
The Problem With Comfort
what coddles you makes you fragile
The Invisible Gorilla
what you miss when you focus