Is there something wrong with democracy?

Infographics / democracy, New York Times

Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question with a video and charts. And if you’re wondering how they generated a high resolution chart to video, Adam Pearce has you covered.

I looked at the percentages of people with a given number of kids in the family and the order they were born.

Go big or go home.

If it seems like every day you log in to Facebook, it’s someone’s birthday, you’re probably not that far off.

Here are the major sports drawn at the same scale to help appreciate the differences between field and court sizes.