Chart of the Day: The College Wage Premium Over Time
The Wall Street Journal, in its everpresent quest to show that millennials are screwed in every possible way, says this today: Investing in a college degree still pays off for most students with higher salaries and greater wealth, but in recent years it has become riskier, splitting graduates more widely into haves and have-nots. ….There…
Counting Calories to Stay Fit? There’s a Trillion Little Problems With That.
Matt Chinworth More than 120 years ago, a scientist named Wilbur Atwater launched what would become an enduring dieting trend: He started meticulously counting calories. In a series of experiments, Atwater set fire to hundreds of foods and measured the released energy. In another experiment, he and his team planted a grad student in an airtight…
The Impractical, Unsophisticated, Very Necessary Long-Shot Campaign to Unseat Nancy Pelosi
Compliments Shahid Buttar for Congress “I’m pretty sure,” says the man running to unseat Nancy Pelosi, “I am the only congressional candidate in the history of the republic who has spent time at Burning Man rhyming about the climate crisis and police violence and the role of immigrants in our community.” Shahid Buttar is laughing…
“It Creates a Culture of Fear”: How Crime Tracking Apps Incite Unnecessary Panic
Mark Helenowski On a Monday in July, the phones of 16,800 New Yorkers near Chinatown lit up with a push notification reading, “Man Stabbed in Park.” Another 51,700 people were notified of a “Man Slashed” in the Bronx. On the Upper West Side, 13,500 people were alerted that a Chase Bank had been robbed. The…
Planting Trees Is Good. Eliminating Deforestation is Better.
erhui1979/Getty Every year, an estimated 15 billion trees are chopped down across the planet to make room for agricultural and urban lands and other uses. We’ve cut down so many, in fact, that what’s left is about half of the number of trees that the Earth supported before the rise of human civilization, and scientists…
David Berman Treated Ennui Seriously Enough to Make It Into a Joke
Edd Westmacott / Getty David Berman, who died Wednesday at the age of 52, was most famous as the frontman of the band Silver Jews. He wrote with a cheeky melancholia that brought him a certain kind of fame throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Some of his lyrics were infused with an offbeat surrealism that…