Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Among millennials, especially, the fertility rate is very low. Between 2007 and 2012, the birth rate among Americans who came of age after 2000 dropped by 15 percent, to the…
This text appears in the book Empty Planet (highly recommended): A 2016 Pew Research poll showed that 60 percent of Americans agreed with the statement that immigrants “strengthen our country…
“The world is aging” is a correct and true statement but I suspect it is misleading to most readers (see below): The world is aging, and our economy is shrinking.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…