Watch This Anxiety-Provoking Simulation of U.S. Births and Deaths

If God had a tracking system for human existence, it might look something like this simulation of real-time births and deaths in America.

The slightly anxiety-provoking map is the work of designer Bill Snebold and programmer Brad Lyon (not "Flyon"), who writes on his blog that he recently found himself wondering "what it would look like to 'watch' as births and deaths were occurring across the globe." So the men put together an application that visualized the cycle of life in cities across the United States, conveying the screams of the newly born and grim silence of the dying in a statistical tango that's mesmerizing to watch. Click here to begin it – but beware, these people's lives are in your hands.