The Big Picture

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The Great Wall of China cannot be seen from space, we have close to 20 senses, and "fatwa" actually means "non-binding legal opinion." London-based data-journalist David McCandless has a website call Information Is Beautiful and, now, a second book, called Knowledge Is Beautiful, in which he compiles facts gleaned during 15, 832 hours of research over two years (infographic): http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/common-mythconceptions-worlds-most-contagious-falsehoods/
   Here's McCandless, in 2010, spreading the word about how visualizing information, as he does in his diagrams, makes the overload of information easier to digest and leads us to make connections we otherwise couldn't see (video): http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization