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Seeing Music
They way I see it, the still surging popularity of last week's post about the distance to the Sun* relies on one phenomenon; the human mind, powerful as it is, has trouble 'picturing' certain ideas.
Whether it be the space between here and another celestial body, the true odds of winning the lottery**, or how quickly the planet's population has grown, the brain often needs a little visual assistance before very abstract or overwhelmingly large concepts can be grasped. It's when this happens that infographics can be so helpful.
Visualizing Exoplanets
Kepler Exoplanet Candidates
by Jer Thorp
I stumbled upon this great little visualization of the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler probe, as current as February of this year. It shows us all the planets we've found so far, plotted relative against our own solar system; keeping planet sizes in scale with one another, and the sizes of orbits in scale as well.* It's a clever way to bring the scope of everything we've found so far into focus. As always, letting people 'see' information exceeds other methods by an order of magnitude.
Could Info-graphics Save the World?
A Brief Introduction to Genetics
by David Murawsky
If you're like me you're alarmed by how easily science is pushed aside in our culture. It's perhaps man's greatest endeavour, yet to many science is nothing more than another boring subject in school. It's the sort of thing best left to nerds in lab coats; having no impact on our daily lives except to create new pieces of technical gadgetry onto which one can load episodes of 'The Jersey Shore'.
