Autodidact: self-taught

Mar
19
2012

Life, the Universe and Everything (Now with Graphics!)

by V. L. Craven
Science

This link is useful because it’ll put things right into perspective.

From the article:

This visualisation from the Chronozoom project takes the biggest of big data - the universe itself - and makes it manageable, bringing videos, graphics and words together to picture the globe. If you roll over the scale at the top of the chart, click on origins of the modern world, jump to threshold and see just how we fit in

Feeling insignificant yet?

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