Facts & Trends
Man With Rifle vs. Mouse
A Canadian man nearly blew off his own head while trying to kill a mouse with a rifle. Dale Whitmell, 40, tried to crush the scampering rodent with the butt of his rifle, but when he slammed the weapon on ...
Automation
47%: Share of U.S. jobs that are at high risk of becoming automated in the next 20 years, according to Oxford University research ...
New York In Texas
Percentage of the world’s population that could fit in Texas by living with the population density of New York City: 100 ...
Airlines And The Arctic
Minimum percentage of Arctic warming that has been caused by commercial airline emissions: 10 ...
Cost of War
$6 trillion - Upper estimate of the cost to the U.S. of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
India’s Dangerous Smog Problem
Toxic air pollution in the Indian capital of Delhi has given some 2.2 million children irreversible lung damage, according to a 2010 study from the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute that surfaced this month. The report has raised fresh concerns ...
No Electricity
About 25 percent of the world's population, or 1.6 billion people, do not have electricity in their homes ...
Record migrant rescues, deaths
Nearly 10,000 desperate refugees were rescued from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean this week, a record high, but another 400 are believed to have drowned when one of the boats sank, also a record. Most of the migrants were from ...
