Even though the Holocaust is one of the best documented genocides in history, there’s limited quantitative data available. A new study investigates the number of deaths per day.
About 9,200 Americans report sexual harassment at work every year.
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Two-thirds of people who report workplace sexual harassment say they lost their jobs or are retaliated against in other ways. Most never receive any money.
Some things are just tricky to measure.
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How useful is the information you get from the measure of any thing? That depends on what you chose measure in the first place, and that’s not always clear.
You’re probably wrong about how long it would take you to know they’re ‘the one.’
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New research confirms that people tend to rush to judgment, in spite of believing their own decisions and those of others are carefully based on lots of evidence and data. And that can be good or bad.
Some women use fertility apps to track the chances of pregnancy.
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Fertility apps aim to help women understand their bodies. But while some find tracking their data a positive experience, others may feel burdened or trapped.
Colorado state senator Randy Baumgardner was accused of inappropriately touching a former legislative aide.
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Between November 2016 and October 2018, more than 130 government officials were publicly accused of sexual harassment or assault.
Factors ranging from the timing of a book’s release to its subject matter can determine whether it will crack the vaunted list.
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The energy required to power the massive, factory-sized data centres that computers rely on already consumes 5% of global electricity. And that energy load is doubling every decade.
Some police reform efforts encourage stations to hire more educated officers.
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Officers with college degrees were significantly more likely to pull over drivers for less serious violations, search drivers or their vehicles and make arrests on discretionary grounds.
Canadians are up in arms about Statistics Canada’s push for their financial data. They shouldn’t be.
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Statistics Canada has been tone-deaf in its push for the financial data of Canadians from banks, but that data is essential to forming good public policy.
Thanks to nonmedical exemptions, vaccination rates are falling in some states.
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Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Sergei Scherbov, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Simone Ghislandi, Bocconi University
Most researchers use the UN’s Human Development Index to measure each country’s progress, but that system has flaws. A new, simplified index aims to do it better.
An Oregon wildfire in August 2018.
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The Iffy Quotient measured misinformation on social media in the run-up to the recent elections. Facebook has gotten better at combating untrustworthy links, but Twitter still struggles.
A makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue.
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The shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue joins a list of more than 200 other ideologically motivated attacks by far-right extremists since 1990.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces a revamped North American free trade deal in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Oct. 1, 2018.
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Lotteries purportedly generate money to support public education. Jackpots are getting bigger and bigger – but states don’t seem to be spending any more on education.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
Former postdoctoral researcher on machine learning applied to chemical engineering and currently science communicator for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), University of Tokyo