A few months ago, I posted an analysis of how the 2016 presidential campaigns were spending their money, based on disclosures to made the Federal Election Committee. These disclosure reports offer a fascinating glimpse into the strategies of each campaign. However, they...
Official unemployment rate by county, 2007-2014 The unemployment rate is back to early 2008 levels. Does that mean the economy has recovered? In the most recent U.S. jobs report, released at the end of last month, the unemployment rate remained stable at 5.1%. Taking...
Population of the World, 1800-2100* country size = share of world population * 2100 population figures are projections from the UN’s Population Division gif version For thousands of years, Asia has been the population center of the world. But...
Click the map to stop and start the animation gif version Looking over the historical results of U.S. presidential elections, I keep coming back to the same conclusion: the political landscape we’ve been living in for the past few decades...
In 2014, Americans spent $70 billion on the lottery. When I read this fact back in May, I thought it was one of the craziest stats I had ever seen. That’s over $630 for every household in the U.S.! It sounds absurd. Then again, the...
It has now been 12 years since we successfully mapped the human genome. We now have a cellular-level model of the human brain. And I just read yesterday that they restored a guy’s severed hand after grafting it to his leg. Biology has come...