Weekend Reading
No. You have a problem.
Thanks Gabi for feeding my habit. And thanks to the Lee County Library System for supplying.
Month: August 2012
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Mark Twain via Wikiquote
Benefits of riding a bike
I only care about a few of these benefits. Guess which ones.
Bounce.
Snake Oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements
Snake Oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements
This infographic from Information is Beautiful shows the relative strength of scientific evidence supporting (or debunking) the benefits of various popular dietary supplements. It is very specific. There are some supplements that have very strong evidence, but their benefits are more limited than you’d expect.
Wasting time at work
I won’t vouch for the accuracy of the numbers in Atlassian’s infographic, You Waste A Lot Of Time At Work, but the numbers suggest how managing three areas of office life could greatly improve productivity.
Even if all the stats in the infographic are bogus, it’s one of the best designed pages I’ve seen on the web.
Star Gazing
by Thomas Allen
The future according to films
For years, film makes have speculated on what the future will be like and using their dystopian visions as the premises for their movies. This infographic collects the visions of their worlds.
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