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The Comforting Factoid About Sharks That’s No Longer True
Is it really possible to die by … vending machine?
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Coronavirus shelter-in-place orders were less effective in states with a greater share of Trump voters
A new study that examined anonymous cell phone tracking data shows that shelter-in-place orders worked better in some regions of the United States than others. The findings, which appear in PLOS One, suggest that political partisanship and other factors played an important role.
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Coronavirus Has Thrown Around 100 Million People Into Extreme Poverty, World Bank Estimates
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown between 88 million and 114 million people into extreme poverty, according to the World Bank’s biennial estimates of global poverty. The reversal is by far the largest increase in extreme poverty going back to 1990 when the data begin, and marks an end to a streak of more than two decades of declines in the number of the extremely impoverished, which the World Bank defines as living on less than $1.90 a day, or about $700 a year.
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The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
For the last 70 years, American transportation planners have been using the same model to decide what to build. There’s just one problem: it’s often wrong.
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Test positivity rate: How this one figure explains that the US isn't doing enough testing yet
Test positivity rates measure the success of a testing program. Even though the US performs a huge number of tests, high test positivity rates across the country show that that it still isn't enough.
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How Much Is a Human Life Actually Worth in Dollars?
As the US economy reopens amid a deadly pandemic, a dire question looms. Let's weigh the risks—and do the math.
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People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows
A growing sense of inequality is undermining trust in both society's institutions and capitalism, according to a long-running global survey. The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer - now in its 20th year - has found many people no longer believe working hard will give them a better life. Despite strong economic performance, a majority of respondents in every developed market do not believe they will be better off in five years' time.
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India halved its poverty rate since 1990s: World Bank
The country has achieved annual growth exceeding seven per cent over the last 15 years, halved its poverty rate since the 1990s, and enjoyed strong improvements in most human development outcomes, the World Bank said.
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World population growth is expected to nearly stop by 2100
For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century.
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Two People A Day Are Killed By Red-Light-Running Drivers
The world at the moment is beset on all sides by assholes. You know, the people who don’t put their carts back at the grocery store, who take up much-needed gas pumps while stuffing their faces, and who run red lights.
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Statistics for Data Science
The article elucidates the importance of statistics in the field of data science, wherein "Statistics" is imagined as a friend to a data scientist and their friendship is unraveled.
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Passenger Fatalities per Billion Passenger Miles
Source: Ian Savage, Comparing the fatality risks in United States transportation across modes and over time, Nortwestern University (Data is for US, 2000-2009).
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Demographic trends spell the end of the white majority in 2044
When whites first began immigrating to what is now the U.S. in the early 1600s, they were not the majority. They became the majority later. European immigrants used a variety of means to push Native Americans out of the way. They killed them with disease and genocide to decimate their numbers as whites became the largest group in the U.S., bolstered even further by immigration that lasted for more than three centuries.
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6.5 Million Canadians Are Ditching Meat
A total of approximately 6.5 million Canadians (20 percent of the population) are actively reducing, or completely eliminating, their consumption of meat, according to a study conducted by Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph. The researchers were interested in discovering how Canadians were responding to the 2019 Canada Food Guide—which de-emphasizes the consumption of meat and dairy, instead recommending that Canadians focus on plant-based sources of protein.
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Add divorce to the list of things Millennials are killing
Red Lobster, bras, top sheets, sleeping with clothes and now ... divorce. Millennials get blamed for "killing" many trends, and the latest example might mean everyone's favorite generation to hate is in it for the long haul after tying the knot, according to a new study. University of Maryland professor Philip Cohen found that from 2008 to 2016, the U.S. divorce rate dropped by 18 percent. What's causing this downward trend? "The overall drop has been driven entirely by younger women," Cohen writes.
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They moved home plate! How baseball’s geography has evolved with the U.S.
Brookings Metro Rubenstein Fellow Jenny Scheutz and Cecile Murray examine how the geography of major league baseballs teams has been mirrored in the demographic and social trends of the US since 1950
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Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say
The deadly school shooting this month in Parkland, Florida, has ignited national outrage and calls for action on gun reform. But while certain policies may help decrease gun violence in general, it’s unlikely that any of them will prevent mass school shootings, according to James Alan Fox, the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern.
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Bayesian analysis of multimethod ego‐depletion studies favours the null hypothesis
In other words, self-control doesn't seem to be a limited resource.
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An online betting strategy that really works—if you can use it
A team of researchers found a way to make money legally from online bookies. But then their troubles began.
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How “Big Data” Went Bust
Sometimes big data doesn’t solve problems—it magnifies them. By Will Oremus.
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