In 1975, there were 105 million obese adults in the world. As of 2014, that number had increased to 641 million. If you’d like to see what the global rise of obesity looks like in a clean, readable graphic,...
Over the last 40 years, obesity rates around the world have ballooned. The average adult today is 3x as likely to be obese compared to the average adult in 1975. This map shows how it happened, country-by-country. The color...
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...