Food: Will Beyond Meat survive?
The product was marketed all wrong, as explained here: But when the inflation hit, omnivorous shoppers balked at spending $8.35 per pound for fake ground when the real stuff cost…
Demographics: Age distribution in Russia
Russia launched a de facto war against Ukraine in 2022. Their military forces have proven inept, compared to what we had been told to believe about Russia’s military in the…
Demographics: Role of Marriage and Education in fertility rates
Source: The Decline in Fertility: The Role of Marriage and Education — Penn Wharton Budget Model As of 2019, about 41% of adult women age 25+ had at least a…
26-Demographics: Percent that speak other than English, at home
From the United States Census Percent of Population that spoke a language other than English at home: 1975: 5.7 1980: 11% 1990: 13.8% 2000: 17.5% 2010: 20.5% 2019: 21.2% What…
Part 2 – Population Demographics: Another way to see the population problem
The following chart shows the rate of the growth of the young, working age, and elderly population (65+). Looking at point (1) you see a tremendous growth in the young…
Safety Culture
I was recently in another western country and noticed the lack of “safety culture” there. After my return, I saw other U.S. citizens who had moved to that country also…
Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women
Of all the fields in STEM – or science, technology, engineering and mathematics – the engineering workforce has the lowest proportion of women, at 14%. Source: Only about 1 in…
What does “surge” even mean?
Media redefines the term “surge” – I guess. Says we are now having a “surge” in new cases of Covid. Really? And the full record, for context:
Why are voluntarily education debts a higher priority to forgive than involuntary health care debts?
We paid off a $20k medical debt – the hospital accepted a negotiated payment from our group payer, but then balanced billed us for the entire remainder. In other words,…
California’s boondoggle train to no where
14 years into the original 500-mile-high speed rail line to be built by 2020 it is now down to 172 miles – or may be just 119 miles and might,…