Alex Selby-Boothroyd

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

A flow chart shows 17.4 million leave voters in 2016, vs 16.1m remain. In 2025, 5 million of those people have died, and 3 million new voters have come of age. The result (plus some people changing their mind) is 19.8 million voters now back rejoin, versus just 11.7 million wanting to stay out.

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

Voting kills one-in-seven!!

Very pleased with my Christmas present to myself - a 3D map of Cholera deaths in London.

Available here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Wow, I only posted that yesterday! Glad it arrived safely, thank you so much for your custom and huge thanks for posting the link (the bell on my Etsy shop door has not stopped tinkling since!!)

College campuses are at the fore of America’s sports-betting boom The fun is undeniable but so is the toll it is taking on young men

Students can bet thousands on their peers. What could go wrong?
www.economist.com/united-state...

Etsy shop selling a framed 3D Map of Soho in 1854 by John Snow showing cholera fatalities

Anyway, here's my Etsy shop, for all your cholera-at-Christmas needs

www.etsy.com/shop/3DArtMaps

A screenshot of the many, many fees charged by Etsy

Etsy is leaving money on the table by not charging a VAT processing delivery transaction regulatory operating payment fee

This goes deeper than we thought...

You Must Cancel America

Letter to The Economist: Bagehot's piece on a purported male crisis in Britain described a monosyllabic Hungarian who says "OK" a lot (November 22nd). I respectfully observe that "OK" is polysyllabic. DANIEL PAUL Bournemouth

Depends how you pronounce it

Not sure what's harder to parse, the picture or the headline

Liverpool?

Substack pivots to video

yesss, just what substack needed

Chickens have quadrupled in size too...
www.economist.com/internationa...

Why friends like sloppily wrapped gifts But mere acquaintances prefer a bit more flair

Friends like badly wrapped presents

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Al Pacino lets out a silent scream at the acting choices of Sofia Coppola. She would later redeem herself however by directing, among other things, Lost in Translation

What to read (and watch) to understand data and visualisation How to make the numbers shine

We did a reading list back in 2022:

www.economist.com/the-economis...

My personal faves are How Charts Lie by Alberto Cairo, Data Visualisation by Andy Kirk, Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, and of course Info We Trust!

My top artists on Spotify 1 The National 2 Ryan Adams 3 The Gaslight Anthem 4 Andrew Bird 5 Iron & Wine https://www.spotify.com/wrapped-share/a572c3784ba44d8680950326ea275409?si=7ZuW2awFRe6_ur3WUlqWUA&feature=wrapped&destination=datastories&lang=en

I've cornered the "sad dad" market
www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

I would love to know about the temperature control in the room in which Hegseth watched that first strike

Show this to anyone who thinks everyone used to die at 40

The Byrds, sorry, The Birds

Andy Cotgreave, author of The Big Book of Dashboards, pointing at a real-life dashboard

TIL that a "dashboard" was originally a wooden or leather board at the front of a carriage to keep mud off the driver. When cars came along, it was a good place to put the dials and gauges the driver would need to keep an eye on

My Excel one started on Jan 12th

Google Trends chart showing spiking search interest in "Ladder injury"

It's decoration-retrieval-injury weekend

Made with plane flour

Hagueseth

I'm calling my band FretBuzz!

From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: Cloudflare uses lava lamps to achieve randomness for data encryption. Explore this post and more from the interestingasfuck community

This is cool. Cloudflare generates random numbers for encryption by taking a photo of a wall of lava lamps and converting the image to a number
www.reddit.com/r/interestin...