Global: How much global travel was done in 1954?
Amongst heads of companies in 1954: 93% of large company CEOs had traveled internationally 89% of mid-size firm CEOs 86% of small firm CEOs Source: The Influence of Foreign Travel…
Demographics: Canada sees fastest population increase in 65 years – almost all due to immigration
Canada’s population grew at the fastest pace since around the height of the baby boom, with immigration responsible for nearly all of that growth. Source: Immigration Drives Fastest Canada Population…
Public health: Beef consumption linked with less depression
Nutrition studies are notorious for problems with self-reported data, correlation without causation, and even cherry picking so … ‘We found that higher beef intake may be protective against major depressive…
Public health: Demographics of who gets hepatitis have changed dramatically
I had hepatitis in May of 2022: Hepatitis A is no longer mainly a travel and food-related infection, as the majority of infections from 2016 to 2020 related to drug…
Automation: Strong growth seen in office automation, robotics firms
And these are not just the obvious mechatronics robots but now software tools that automate worked previously done by white collar workers: Artificial intelligence is getting better at all kinds…
Global: Prevalence of International Travel
Summary All adults travel experience: 71% of all U.S. adults have traveled internationally at some point in their lives (Wow! That’s almost 3 in 4!) 49% have been to 3…
Public health: Norway does not recommend new Covid boosters for healthy individuals under age 65
To add to the public health messaging confusion this is, of course, different than the CDC’s recommendation: The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) recommends a booster dose of coronavirus…
Humor: The funniest thing you will read today, or tomorrow, …
The Onion files a friend of the Court brief to the US Supreme Court. Die laughing.
Parody? If you ever get sick again, of anything, after having Covid, then you have long Covid
Unfortunately, she doubled down on that claim; it’s not parody.
Demographics: The loss of languages
As our population demographics evolve, we lose about 25 languages each year. About 1.2 billion people speak Mandarin or Cantonese Chinese. But for about two thousand languages, there are fewer…