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08/24/2025

The best thing about living in Delaware…

178K likes, 1189 comments. “Dragging the bullies and doing it effortlessly. ”

06/23/2025

Chart of the day. The people don't support it, but of course Tr*mp did it anyway.

Massive Ordnance Penetrators were developed by America’s air force when it found that its existing bombs could not damage Iraqi bunkers during the invasion in 2003. However, there are limits to what they can do https://econ.trib.al/Xryvg98

01/08/2025

We all march for different reasons, but we march for the same cause: to defend our rights and our future.  If you believe that decisions about your body should remain yours, that books belong in libraries, not on bonfires, that healthcare is a right, not a privilege for the wealthy; if you beli...

01/01/2025

Check out my favorite strategy for coping with writer's block and low motivation -- the Recess List!

Set yourself up for success in 2025 by planning for low-motivation days ahead of time.

12/14/2024

“Spotify excels at data curation. They focus on only the meaningful insights.”

Every year, Spotify Wrapped takes over social media.

10/11/2024

: Depression is a disorder of the brain that's more than just "feeling blue" for a few days.

Help raise awareness about depression, learn the different types of depression, signs & symptoms, treatment options and how to find help. samhsa.gov/mental-health/depression

10/02/2024

Please consider contacting the White House about cannabis clemency for the 3,000 people still in federal prison. https://www.cannabisclemency.org/

09/23/2024

It's fall, which means pumpkin spice everything, back-to-school, crisp morning weather, Halloween, and, of course, Tableau’s Iron Viz Qualifier!

08/25/2024

Hot off the press: media has gone digital!

Employment in newspaper publishing has fallen over 80% since 1990, from nearly 500K people to under 100K. Periodical and book publishing have also fallen in that time.

Meanwhile, exclusive digital publishing and broadcasting companies — as well as syndicates, libraries, archives, and search portals — employ over five times more people than they did in 1990.

Are you a page-turner or a scroller?

08/25/2024

By • Swap a beef burger for a chicken one, and you’d cut the carbon footprint of your dinner by around 80%. The problem is that you’d need to kill 200 times as many chickens to get the same amount of meat.

In the chart, you can see each type of meat’s carbon footprint on the right and the number of animals killed to produce one tonne on the left. Bigger animals tend to emit more greenhouse gases but produce much more meat per animal. Chicken and fish might have a lower carbon footprint but are killed in much higher numbers.

The average person in the EU consumes around 80 kilograms of meat per year. If all of this came from chicken meat, about 40 chickens would have to be killed per person. From beef, it would be less than one-sixth of a cow. That’s one cow every 6 or 7 years.

🔗 Click the link in our bio to read more about these trade-offs.

Data source: Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek (2018); (2023)

Note: Emissions data is based on global averages from a large meta-analysis of the life-cycle impacts of food production.

07/25/2024

04/24/2024

SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Viral Activity Trends by U.S. Region
Day 14, Heatmap