The World Reduced to Infographics: From Hollywood's Life Lessons and Doomed Cities of the U.S. to Sociopathic Cats and What Your Drink Order Says About You
By Patrick Casey and Josh Miller
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Respected academics agree that The World Reduced to Infographics is jam-packed with colorful illustrations. Now you can finally understand complex facts with the ease and enjoyment of eating an ice cream sandwich. After all, any information that can’t be explained with a hilarious infographic isn’t worth knowing.
• Are You Pregnant? Flow Chart
• Doomed Cities of U.S. Map
• Human Anatomy of Vices Diagram
• Reasons to Go Fishing Pie Chart
• Bowling Score by Drunkenness Area Graph
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The World Reduced to Infographics - Patrick Casey
INFOGRAPHICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO LEARNING
Confucius famously wrote, You cannot open a book without learning something.
Yeah, right. Give it a shot. Pull the nearest book from your shelf, open it to any random page, and stare blankly at it. Learn anything? Chances are you’ll glean nothing; at best you’ll have spent a relaxing moment in thoughtless meditation. Confucius may have offered us some theoretically sage advice, but in this case he was wrong. Despite his wisdom, he ignored two diametrically opposed facts of human nature:
1. People like knowing things.
2. People hate learning things.
Thus enters our answer to Confucius’s flawed theory: a book composed entirely of single-page information morsels. Revolutionizing the field of illustrative epistemology (the study of picture-based knowledge), we have crafted a tome of anthropological, sociological, and philosophical superknowledge, all easily absorbed while taking a short break from your busy day or using the toilet.
Illustrative epistemologists believe that how we transfer knowledge from one person to the next is the very essence of being human. Throughout our history, scientists and scholars from a host of fields have sought simple qualifiers to define humanity’s uniqueness within the animal kingdom. Time and again, though, these supposedly singular traits have proven not so singular. Man, the toolmaker? Hardly. Egyptian vultures use rocks to crack open thick-shelled ostrich eggs. Man, the builder? Not quite. Pesky beavers were erecting elaborate dams long before we were. Man, the artist? Think again. Bowerbirds express their individuality by constructing extraordinarily lavish and often colorful nests. What about our singularly shameful attributes? Man, the wager of war? Relax. Chimpanzees have been known to invade and kill their neighbors for no other reason than to gain new territory.
Our species, Homo sapiens, is Latin for knowing man
or wise man,
but even our noninstinctual knowledge crown has been usurped from us by a variety of species ranging from apes to monkeys to dolphins to whales, which have been witnessed passing newly acquired knowledge from generation to generation.
In the end, what