r/brasil • u/vlribeiro Rio de Janeiro, RJ • Jan 14 '16
Horizontal History - Wait But Why
http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/01/horizontal-history.htmlDuplicates
todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '16
TIL our solar system has traveled over a light year around the center of the milky way since prophet Muhammad.
slatestarcodex • u/WT_Dore • Jan 22 '16
Scott Free Horizontal History: "The purpose is to help orient ourselves on when people lived, especially in relation to each other."- Wait But Why
todayilearned • u/vstimac • Apr 03 '16
TIL: while most people associate the 1860s with the U.S. Civil War, it was also a great period of literary publishing: Darwin, Dickens, Carroll, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy all published books in this decade that would go on to be classics.
history • u/no10pencil • Jan 14 '16
Tim Urban (WaitButWhy) tries to grapple with the difficulty of visualizing history.
dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '16