The Price of Tea in China displays data that's gathered from different sources around the web to show the changing relationships, or non-relationships, between: the value of the Euro, the velocity of the solar wind, the temperature of the ocean in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the value of of the Dominican Peso, the air pressure on the surface of Mars, and of course the price of tea in China.

As these things rise and fall, small tokens representing them rise and fall as well.

All of these data points are available freely on the web. What a strange thing to live in a time when you can find out updated answers to burning questions like "what's the air pressure doing on Mars these days" by fiddling with your hand-sized computer for a few moments!

The piece also begs, implicitly, for the viewer to interpret and interrelate the various data streams shown. Some surprising relationships between disparate data may be actually valid: for instance, high velocity solar winds can impair satellite communication and affect economic variables on Earth. But what might the air pressure on Mars have to do with the price of tea in China? Probably not much. But in a quantumly entangled universe, who can say?