I love data pictures. This is why I justify Tufte seminars to my employer every other year. It never hurts to brush up on some basics. Among those basics are: a clean look, plain language, and no chartjunk.
I owe a tip of the hat to Boing Boing for this great pointer to an infographic depicting the history of scientific thought (a la tube-map). My first thought was that the data are useful seeds for growing an interest in critical thinking skills.
The summary is priceless:
500 years of modern science, reason & critical thinking via the medium of gross oversimplification, dodgy demarcation, glaring omission and a very tiny font.
Wry pseudo-apologies be damned; the thing is wonderful. Planting seeds is my thing, so I had to share it. Just staring at the work makes me appreciate the painstaking development of thoughts that I all too often take for granted. It’s worth remembering on the next occasion that I shake my fist at the world. I can be impatient, but change takes time. Dammit.
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