Impressive visualization tool for population statistics. Vectored via freakonomics blog. As Levitt commented, “[it creates] such beautiful graphs that it is easy to forget that what you are looking at are correlations, not necessarily anything causal.”

This sort of thing is a lot harder than it should be.

The ‘tubes are just jammed with good stuff today…solstice moon is tomorrow night. It will look huge. Why? Even government rocket scientists aren’t sure.
Via neatorama.