"Ilha das Flores": A Tomato, Thumbs and Pigs for a Short Explanation of Capitalism

Isle of Flowers (or Ilha das Flores in Portuguese) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. Following a tomato from garden to dump, it delivers dry narration, witty editing and eclectic visuals for an unexpectingly cruel message.

"Effectively it's a museum about everything, everywhere, ever": The New Cambridge University Museum of Anthropology and Archeology

Sylvia Plath, front-doors, humanity, Totem poles, objects made 1.8 million years ago, Captain Cook, death, sex in Ancient Rome, snakes and ladders and other things in the Cambridge University Anthropology and Archeology Museum's collections.

What Average Americans Are Doing: Sleeping, Eating, Working and Watching Television

This is how an average American over the age of 15 spends his or her 24 hours of daily existence (based on 2008 statistics). Playing with the different categories of Americans makes for a good fifteen minutes of entertainment and brain workout trying to figure out why, on average, at 8:50pm as many as 55% of the 65 or over are watching television while at as little as 8% of the 18-25 are socializing. 

Graph by Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy, Amy Schoenfeld found in The New York Times

Coloured Water, Tape and Glass Cups: NPR Explains Seven Billion Humans

Found at flowingdata