This is a visualization from Global Data (some really hard-hitting data here) comparing the sizes of various monsters and aliens from pop culture movies, shows, and video games. It begins with the tiny soot sprites from Hayao Miyazaki movies, and ends with the 10.45-trillion light year wide Super Tengen Toppa
Because the oceans are probably the best thing that ever happened to earth (humanity ranks dead last), this is a beautiful visualization of the earth’s ocean currents according to NASA’s ECCO (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean) model, developed using data from spacecraft, buoys, and other measurements. Was
This is a 3D visualization created by Global Data featuring the scale of various objects in the universe, beginning with subatomic particles, then covering animals and manmade objects and landmarks we’re all familiar with here on earth before traveling into space, ending with the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. The Great
This is a chart of the ten Wikipedia articles that received the most page views in 2024. The results may or may not surprise you depending on how much you suspected people rely on Wikipedia for their political information. Honestly, I was more surprised that the search results page for
This is a chart created by Visual Capitalist detailing about how much longer you have to live according to your age and the U.S. national average. The chart leads me to believe I still have a ways to go, but I feel like I’ve been running on lawnmower fumes (admittedly,
This is a video from The Cinema Cop, who analyzed all the crimes committed by Walter White in Breaking Bad and used Albuquerque, New Mexico’s laws to determine just how many years ol’ Heisenberg would spend in the slammer if he was convicted of said crimes. The result? A minimum
This is a video from informative Youtuber ReYOUniverso imagining if the history of life on earth were packed into a 24 hour period. If that were the case, the first fully formed cells come into existence at 4:30AM, and it takes all the way until 9:34PM for plants to emerge
Using Google’s Frightgeist search trend data, Visual Capitalist created this graphic of the top 27 most searched for Halloween costumes of 2023. And, after a very brief scroll of my Facebook feed from last year, I can confirm that these are, in fact, what people wore. Although I’d argue Taylor