That means during the period when both the US and New Zealand are both on DST, the cumulative time difference is an extra 2 hours. ~ learn more
I don’t mean for this to be alarmist. I know there’s a news cycle about banning apps and whatnot. I mostly find it interesting! Tiktok and Shein are among the list. I hadn’t heard of the other two, CapCut and […]
Ezra Klein makes the point that we got carried away with the “reduce” part of reduce, reuse, recycle. Our per capita energy use in the US has decreased since 1979. It’s not a coincidence that most tech innovation since then […]
“Despite making up just 14% of the population, immigrants are responsible for 30% of U.S. patents and 38% of U.S. Nobel Prizes in science. A team of Stanford economists recently estimated that nearly three quarters of all U.S. innovation since […]
75.8% of census-takers are “White alone” but that might not mean what you think. A reminder that even data that seems obvious can be confusing: “The concept of race is separate from the concept of Hispanic origin. Percentages for the […]
“Though the concept [of a golfer picking up everyone’s bar tab after nailing a hole-in-one] largely faded away in the US, it became a big business in Japan, where golfers who landed a hole-in-one were expected to throw parties “comparable […]
“In a US context, the authors tested whether appearance-altering photo-filters can exploit this bias, focusing on the moderating role of job type, gender and race as well the mediating role of two major dimensions of person perception (warmth and competence).” | learn […]
“Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the U.S. market.” | learn more
What words do Americans know that the English don’t? And vice versa! | learn more
A crypto group has developed a marketplace for organizing vote-buying in governance tokens. Why is this interesting? Well, consider how important vote-buying was to governance of cities and states in the US a hundred or so years ago. | learn more