Imagine your goal in life was simply to make as much as much money as possible. What should you do? According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), you should become a doctor.
Uber and Lyft radically changed the landscape for the taxi industry, and in cities like New York contributed to the collapse of a bubble that left many drivers in financial ruin. But as an American occupation, the taxi driver is enjoying a renaissance.
Do you love CBD? Do you love it so much you want to declare it on a coffee mug, tank top, or a bumper sticker? You are not alone.
Once upon a time, the most-Googled cannabis-derived chemical compound was THC. Also known as tetrahydrocannabinol, THC was feared and revered for its ability to get users high. Today it’s CBD, or cannabidiol, that we’re dying to know more about. In December 2016, Google searches for CBD overtook those for THC, and its popularity has been climbing ever since.
The seemingly unexpected collapse of trade negotiations between the US and China last month hinted that existing Sino-US tariffs may now be the new normal. But recent data reveal that, well before talks broke down in May, China-based companies had already begun bracing for the worst-case scenario. The latest trade numbers suggest that China has been selling Americans fewer goods like computers and auto parts—and that other countries are benefitting from taking up the slack.
On June 10, Salesforce purchased data visualization software company Tableau for $15.3 billion. Not that long ago, the idea that a data visualization company would be worth that was hard to imagine.
Football Manager is one of the most popular sports video games in the world. The 2019 version was a chart-topping hit in the UK, where the game is most widely played. Previous versions of the game have consistently sold more than a million copies each.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a film fable about the most controversial city in the US. The drama presents a San Francisco that is prospering economically, but is in decline as a city of culture and opportunity. This is mostly due to its lack of affordability—the median home value in San Francisco is now almost $1.4 million, according to Zillow.
In 2018, 632 never-before-translated books of fiction and poetry were published in the United States. It’s the fifth straight year the US has published more than 600 translations, quite the feat for a country that has long been accused of having an insular book culture. By comparison, less than 400 translations were published in each year from 2008 to 2010. The data are from Publishers Weekly Translation Database, which goes back to 2008. (Accurate data before 2008 are not available.)
On May 10, Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber released “I Don’t Care,” the first single from Sheeran’s upcoming album. The song immediately catapulted to No. 2 on the Billboard Charts, the influential US music popularity ranking. Sheeran and Bieber may be successful pop stars, but they don’t hold a candle to another contributor to the song, pop-music hit machine Max Martin.
In this mini-series, we return to movies and TV we’ve loved to see how they depict gender. Does it hold up in 2019? Warning: contains spoilers.
Money costs more when you’re poor. That’s often the case when transferring money abroad, getting a loan, or opening a bank account. In the UK, it can even extend to withdrawing cash from an ATM.
Guido van Rossum is one of the world’s most influential programmers. Van Rossum is the author of the general-purpose programming language Python, which he started working on in 1989, and is now among the most popular languages in use. According to a survey of users on Stack Overflow, a popular question-and-answer site for programmers, Python is the fastest-growing major programming language, and the most used after JavaScript. Python is free and open source, meaning anybody can use the language and modify it to suit their specific needs.
Pop music, a genre largely known for its easy, upbeat melodies, is becoming increasingly dark. While a surprising number of songs with reaper-friendly lyrics have topped the charts in recent years, lately pop music seems preoccupied with another heavy topic: mental health, and specifically experiences with anxiety and depression.
India’s Muslim population is rising. In 2015, their number stood at 195 million, which, due to high birth rates, has almost doubled since 1991, according to the Pew Research Center. Their share has increased from 12% to 15% in this time period. By 2060, Pew estimates, there will be more Muslims in India than anywhere else in the world (Indonesia has more today), and they will constitute 19% of Indians.
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They just couldn’t stick the landing. With one episode left, it is all but certain that the eighth season of Game of Thrones will be considered its worst. Our analysis suggests it’s been a truly historic fall.
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After what was perhaps the biggest technological revolution in human history, workers ended up better off overall, even though many lost their jobs. This is something to keep in mind when considering the future of work.
There have been some great baby name runs in American history. Emma is on one of them.
The US government’s revenue from tariffs is soaring. From 2010 to 2018, the federal tax revenue received from customs duties barely budged, typically hovering around a rate of $30-40 billion per year. Then, Donald Trump’s trade war kicked in.
In March 2007, Spain introduced a national policy granting most new fathers two weeks of fully paid paternity leave. The policy proved exceptionally popular, with 55% of men eligible in the first year opting to take the paid time. The amount of leave covered by the program was doubled in 2017 and expanded to five weeks in 2018, with additional increases expected between now and 2021.
It was the love of my life, but now it’s over between us. I am breaking up with Microsoft Excel. After a long period of soul-searching, my feelings for Google Sheets grew from flirtation to true love.
The US Census asks people what they do for work. The survey question is used to identify people’s jobs so researchers know how many people are doing what, and which jobs are growing and shrinking. (The exact survey questions asked are “What kind of work was this person doing?” and “What were this person’s most important activities or duties?”) At the most granular level, the government has identified 31,000 possible occupations.
