Facts & Trends

Alcohol Improves Joke Telling

Portion of college students who believe alcohol improves their ability to tell jokes: 3/4 ...

Hog Slaughter

Portion of hogs slaughtered in the United States that are raised by a single Chinese company: 1/6 ...

Islamic State and Social Media

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and its supporters produce as many as 90,000 tweets and other social media posts every day. The U.S. State Department is now assigning 80 people to counter ISIS's propaganda on Twitter and Facebook ...

Helping The Homeless in San Francisco

A nonprofit group in San Francisco is helping the city's homeless population with a former public transit bus that's been outfitted with two bathrooms, complete with toilets and hot showers. "If you're living on the streets and you're filthy, you ...

Travel Time

68.4 - The number of minutes Americans spend traveling each day, per capita, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number is down from 74.4 minutes in 2003 ...

8 Year Old Donates Hair

For the past two years, Christian McPhilamy, 8, has put up with a lot of teasing over his long blond locks.  But nothing could discourage the Florida boy from growing his hair to help other kids who have lost theirs ...

Protecting The World

25%:  Share of the world’s population that the U.S. is legally bound to defend thanks to pacts and treaties signed with over 60 countries, according to a report from the Harvard Belfer Center ...

CORAL-REEF DECLINE

Heat and acidity are also bad for coral reefs, which have declined by 40% in some areas since the 1970s.  Coral organisms reproduce just once a year, making it hard for reefs to bounce back ...

Not the valedictorian

Danielle Shea, 22, was charged with trying to cancel Quinnipiac University’s graduation ceremony by calling in a bomb threat.  Shea, police said, didn’t want her parents to find out she had dropped out and was pocketing their tuition money ...

Carbon Emissions In China

Portion of China's carbon emissions that is produced by manufacturing goods for export: 1/4 ...