Thursday, October 14, 2010

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

See Spot Run

A series of spot illustrations for a few statistics.

Ratio of the average number of microbes living in or on a person's body to the average number of human cells: 10:1

Ratio of the number of people worldwide who are overweight to the number who are undernourished: 5:3

Number of weapons that have been turned into tools for African farmers by a British nonprofit since 2001: 2.200

Estimated percentage by which brontosauruses were less massive than previously believed, according to a recent study: 50