What Was I Thinking?

I'm an idiot. Don't ask.

That being said, check out these cartograms of world from worldmapper. There is some pretty interesting info on the world displayed in these maps.

For example, literacy of women around the world:

I'm disappointed (though I guess not surprised) that the US is as large as it is, especially given the criterion set to determine literacy. Its even scarier when I think that this is not in absolute numbers but as a comparison to male literacy.