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Birth rates are falling nearly everywhere. For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch explores why that is, from shifts in education, work, how we interact with others, choices in relationships, and of ...

An aging population means more seniors 65 years and older are taking care of other seniors. This grows more challenging with disabilities, financial concerns, and mobility. The Straits Times looked ...

U.S. inflation is high, and the prices of almost everything are rising fast enough to notice when we go to the store. You know this. I know this. Your bank account knows this. But the U.S. Departme ...

As a ratio of home prices to household income, the cost of buying a house grew by multiples over the past several decades. The New York Times editorial board used a stacking coin metaphor to show t ...

This week, we talk limitations of the defaultiest of defaultiest chart types.

Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is updating their Code of Conduct to account for generative AI. Usage is not banned, but slop is, which results in ...

Disney shutdown FiveThirtyEight last year, but the archive stayed online. Well, they got rid of that too. All old FiveThirtyEight links forward to ABC News. Nate Silver goes into detail about the s ...

Steven Rosenbaum wrote The Future of Truth, a book about AI and reality that was published this month. It has generated and misattributed quotes throughout. Benjamin Mullin reports for the New York ...

For the Pudding, Russell Samora, with design and illustration by Shelly Tan, analyzed the words used in similes across popular fiction. Instead of just stopping at the obvious word counts, they get ...

World Bank, which releases an atlas every few years, published an Atlas of Global Development for 2026. Across the global development landscape, which countries are moving the fastest, and which ar ...