There goes the hope that Hurricane Sandy and other crazy weather events will finally wake people up to climate change… A new study shows 4 in 10 U.S. residents say recent extreme weather events, like Superstorm Sandy, is evidence the world is coming to an end. The survey, conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute [...]
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Americans believing crazy weather is due to end-of-world
Posted by Shubha on December 15, 2012
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Meaningful Dates
I don’t know how I missed this one before… So why are the first of most months really important except poor February 1? Also I wonder how to scale the numbers are… like is September 18th and basically the 11th of every month really THAT less important than every other date? Also why are [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 12, 2012
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Declines in Home Equity Shrink Charitable Donations
Latest in the Harvard stats emails: Households increase their gifts to charity by nearly 1% for every 10% increase in home equity. That’s about 10 times the effect of increases in other types of wealth such as stocks and bonds, say Chau Do and Irina Paley of the U.S. Treasury. The finding may be ominous [...]
Posted by Shubha on November 24, 2012
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Africa for Norway
You’ve probably all already seen this.. but it’s great. A spoof charity video making fun of the sort of development-porn version of aid.
Posted by Shubha on November 19, 2012
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Workplace injury stats… The deadliest job is…
This is a few weeks old but had been sitting in my inbox for a bit. It’s stats on workplace injuries in the US! The majority of work fatalities (39%) are transportation injuries with 21% being highway incidences The next biggest is Assault and Violent acts at 18% and falls is 14% Assault and violent [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 14, 2012
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Canada ranks 5th in Economic Freedom
Canada was just ranked as 5th in the world’s ranking of economic freedom. Canada’s scores in key areas of economic freedom (from one to 10, where higher values indicate higher levels of economic freedom) are: Size of government: 6.12 (74th overall) Legal system and property rights: 8.74 (12th overall) Access to sound money: 9.46 (25th [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 1, 2012
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The ethics behind one-for-one businesses serving medical needs?
Because I don’t care of my glasses at all, the lenses are now dirty and scratched, and since there’s now a ton of cheap online glass stores I thought maybe glasses are now in the realm of use them, throw them out, buy new ones. So in my hunt for cheap online eyeglass stores I [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 25, 2012
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Inflation and the Tooth Fairy (or…signs of the economy improving)
Ack having kids IS expensive. From my Harvard Stats email: American children receive an average of $3 per tooth from the Tooth Fairy, 15% higher than in 2011, according to a survey by Visa. A plurality of children, 30%, receive $1, a proportion that is essentially unchanged from last year, but more children are getting [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 21, 2012
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Insurance premiums on the rise (a bit)
From the Harvard Daily Stat: Workers at U.S. companies where at least 35% of people earn $55,000 pay a yearly average of about $4,000 for their share of health premiums; those at companies where at least 35% earn $24,000 or less pay nearly $5,000, says a New York Times report on a study by the [...]
Posted by Shubha on September 14, 2012
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New York City census maps
http://project.wnyc.org/census-maps/nyc-income You can check out percent change in Asian population, and the most populous groups, here – http://project.wnyc.org/census-maps/2010pop.html. Interestingly, the north end of Roosevelt Island decreased it’s Asian population by 50%, while the south end increased by 50%. Island drain?
Posted by Shubha on September 2, 2012
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