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Product Description The world's most mind-boggling questions, answered through 200 brilliantly clever and addictive infographics.What's the secret to living past a hundred? What's going on in China? Are we running out of sand? And how many chickens are there?In An Answer to Everything, 200 of the world's most mind-boggling questions are explained by way of brilliantly clever and addictive infographics. Some will make you giggle, others hit like a sucker punch, and then there are the slow burners, where you can geek out over a data set for hours.Authored by the team behind Delayed Gratification, the world's best slow journalism magazine, these deeply researched infographics are a compelling and darkly funny way to see the world around us with new eyes. Review “Fresh, fascinating, and fun – a visual and verbal treat” ―Ian Hislop“Data just got a lot more fun” ―It's Nice That“Achieves the ultimate factual book goal; makes you cleverer, with minimal effort on your part. You'll learn from it but somehow it makes that pleasurable” ―Rachel Parris, The Mash Report“A fabulous compendium of a thousand new things you didn't know you didn't know. And it looks very nice too” ―Andrew Hunter Murray, No Such Thing as a Fish, QI About the Author Delayed Gratification is a quarterly publication that specialises in demystifying the world's biggest news stories in slow retrospection. Every article is supported by beautifully designed and enlightening data-driven infographics.