Tag: data
College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressively
Richard Wright, Georgia State University; Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University
In the wake of controversial and widely...
Which country is best to live in? Our calculations say it’s...
Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Sergei Scherbov, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Simone Ghislandi, Bocconi...
The next big discovery in astronomy? Scientists probably found it years...
Eileen Meyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding: Thousands of black holes likely exist near the center...
Baby bust: 5 charts show how expensive it is to have...
Heidi Steinour, University of South Florida
Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in...
The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most...
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit,...
Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since...
Morgan Currie, Stanford University and Britt S. Paris, University of California, Los Angeles
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the...
How the firearms industry influences US gun culture, in 6 charts
Michael Siegel, Boston University
Americans have blamed many culprits, from mental illness to inadequate security, for the tragic mass shootings that are occurring with increasing...
US life expectancy just dropped for the second year in a...
David Bishai, Johns Hopkins University
U.S. gross domestic product is at an all-time high. U.S. life expectancy is not.
Life expectancy has fallen for...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
