Ever since Andrew Wiles solved Fermat's Last Theorem, the greatest intellectual puzzle facing humankind has been: How does The New York Times' "Most-emailed" list work? Science has finally given us the answer!

You too can transform your pop culture obsession into science through the magic of infographics! Above, Michael Deal's chart of what the Beatles were doing from 1963 to 1966. Omitted: drugs and groupies. Large versions of Beatles-related infoporn here. [via]

A fairly accurate description, no doubt! The Times has a crazy-cool infographic about which zip codes rent what movies in 12 cities. Naturally, Milk and Rachel Getting Married have done very, very, very well. Fun! Also: Jersey <3's Shitty Movies. [NYT]

Botox is now "medicine's answer to duct tape," used for everything from "buttock deformity" to headaches. Guess which end of the body our eyes darted to on the awesome New York Times infographic.

For a year now, everyone's asked, how much is that YouTube in the window? Pick a number, and someone's said the world's biggest video sharing site is worth that much. CNET cried $1 billion today, while TechCrunch called out $2 billion on Tuesday.