Joel Somerfield created this motion graphic to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot monologue. Good stuff:
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This is what you get when you add up all the days the average American adult spends sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing other activities.
The wind was blowing smoke and ash from wildfires further up north from where I live. The sky turned an eerie orange. I wondered about past fires and made the chart below.
In the 1950s, almost half of all employed people were either in farming or manufacturing. As you can imagine, work changed a bit over the years.
Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots and lots and lots. Rest. Then …
