Very nice presentation at TED showing how many things many bright people think are wrong ( Read more... )

I've been interested in visualizations more lately. Strange maps has all sort of interesting conceptual maps and visualizations on it. The first one I ran into was this 50 state GDP map. Each state is replaced with a nation of the same approximate GDP. This map caught my eye today. It shows cotton production in 1860 vs 2008 election district