With the premier of Series 5 of Doctor Who, you might feel a little confused over time travel in movies and TV shows. Fear not! The wonderful website Information is Beautiful has you covered:

Click to see the whole wonderful thing; a timeline of time travel from quite a few scifi stories.

Now what we need is for this to be open-source so we can add in others. But then again, adding in the good Doctor’s travels would mean turning this lovely graphic into a solid red rectangle.

The cool website Information is Beautiful presents, um, well, information in a beautiful way. They recently posted a good guide to the sense and nonsense of the 2012 phenom, pretty much showing that the major claims of the doomcriers are baloney.

I haven’t checked every factoid of the graphic, but the part pictured above is cool: I independently came to this same conclusion a few months ago using some planetarium software to plot the position of the Sun and the Galactic center (and presented this at TAM 7, in fact). There are people out there trying to spin, fold, and mutilate astronomy to fit their pre-manufactured conclusions about 2012, but — as usual when it comes to doomsday scenarios — the actual facts show that these scaremongers’ claims are as vacuous as space itself.