mmmm tasty coal

the scary bit is the one I found was actually being serious…..

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To be fair, the industrial revolution probably wouldn’t have been quite as successful without copious supplies of coal…

very true but to claim more coal = better life expectancy is a little bit of over reach there.

Peabody Energy
Company
Peabody Energy Corporation, is the largest private-sector coal company in the world. Its primary business consists of the mining, sale and distribution of coal, which is purchased for use in electricity generation and steelmaking. Wikipedia

And so on – taken from here

@mike – very good.

I like this one – mainly because I’m looking at the graph and wondering if there is a common causative factor between the two! The spike in 2006 in divorce rates – economic effects of Katrina?

Though now looking at the scale, it now doesn’t look like a spike at all. 😳

Hmmm… that cheese consumption vs bedsheet self-strangulation one makes perfect sense:

more cheese = more nightmares = more unsettled sleep = more strangulation.

😀

Such was the discussion that ensued when it was posted on Yammer at work!

http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=4364

Careless cyclists and careless microlightists are drawn from the same pool..?

Hmmm… that cheese consumption vs bedsheet self-strangulation one makes perfect sense:

more cheese = more nightmares = more unsettled sleep = more strangulation.

An average of 600 people a year are dying in the US after getting tangled in their bedsheets? 😯

Another advantage of our cosy European duvets.

(Mind you I suspect hundreds of people die each year trying to put a kingsize duvet cover on)