A Teenage Music Phenom, Infographics, Motorcycles In Vietnam
The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest discoveries.
This week, he tells NPR's Arun Rath about a bullied teen who makes it big, the unlikely popularity of an American motorcycle brand in Ho Chi Minh City and the most informative cartoons imaginable.
"You and I and a ton of other people love infographics. The idea that the best way to explain something sometimes is clever graphics. This blog was started by two tutors — these guys were academic tutors, Tim Urban and Andrew Finn — who decided to get together to explain some of life's more important and offbeat points.
"Even though they only started in July, [they] already have more than a quarter of a million subscribers and [a] really interesting ability to use graphs and charts to bring things alive."
Read "Wait But Why: Making Nerdiness Viral" at Ozy.com