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Two male academics have proposed a new measure of gender inequality that...
A recently published report suggests a new method for measuring gender inequality.The report suggests that men are falling behind women in 91 of the 134 countries being studied.That result largely...
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Here's how we ranked the economies of the 50 US states and DC
In our ranking of the economies of the states and DC, we looked at six measures of economic health.Each measure was rescaled to allow us to compare them to one another. Technically, we calculated...
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Daylight-saving time is one of humanity's dumbest rituals, and you should be...
In 2019, daylight-saving time, or DST, begins on Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. Clocks move forward one hour at that time.The practice started in the US the early 1900s as a way to conserve energy. Today,...
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As the Powerball jackpot tips over $600 million, let's remember the time Fox...
The Powerball jackpot is up to $625 million dollars.In January 2016, amid a media mania around the then-record billion-dollar prize, a segment on the Fox News morning show "Fox and Friends" suggested...
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A 'Jeopardy!' contestant has broken nearly all the show's records. Here are...
James Holzhauer, the current reigning "Jeopardy!" champion, is on an 12-day winning streak.The Las Vegas resident and professional sports gambler has taken home more than $850,000 so far. Holzhauer's...
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Here's how we found the best cities for recent college grads
We recently published a ranking of the 20 best cities for college grads.Here are the details of our data sources and ranking method.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.We recently...
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Most of the Scripps National Spelling Bee champions come from Texas. Here are...
Texas has had the most Scripps National Spelling Bee champions over the years. Eleven winners have come from the Lone Star state. Ohio has had nine total winners while Colorado, Pennsylvania, and...
View ArticleSharks aren't the deadliest creatures on Earth. Here are the top 10.
A summer season of shark attacks can leave many beaches around the world empty, but the likelihood that the average person will die from a shark attack is relatively low. In fact, sharks don't even...
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Here's how we ranked the economies of the 30 biggest US metro areas
To get a closer look at the US economy as it varies by metro area, we considered five measures of economic health.We used those measures to establish to ranking of the 30 biggest metro areas in the...
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This is how we ranked the economies of the 50 states and DC
We recently ranked the economies of the 50 US states and Washington, DC.We used six economic measures: unemployment, job growth, GDP per capita, GDP growth, average wages, and wage growth.Here's where...
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This IBM manager moved from Brazil, learned to code, and now leads a...
Gabriela de Queiroz, senior engineering and data science manager at IBM, leads a team of data scientists and software engineers to contribute to open source artificial intelligence projects.Outside of...
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A mathematical technique originally developed to help build the atomic bomb...
Executive compensation packages have gotten more complicated over time.CEOs are frequently paid in stock shares or options that only vest if certain market or financial goals are met.To figure out an...
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15 alarming facts about divorce in the US that will shock you
Divorce rates may be dropping, but the ending of a marriage is still a stark, and oftentimes depressing, reality for many Americans.However, when it comes to knowledge about divorce in the US, many...
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Constant media updates on the coronavirus could actually be stopping people...
Updates on new deaths and infections of the novel coronavirus have been coming thick and fast from media outlets as the outbreak becomes an ever-increasing news story.But this constant stream of...
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Here is how we ranked the economies of the states and DC
Business Insider recently published its state economy ranking.Below are our methods and data sources used to create an overall economic index for the 50 states and Washington, DC.We used datasets from...
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Data on coronavirus deaths by country show more men are dying than women....
Men are more likely than women to die of the coronavirus, data from nearly 20 countries suggests.The pattern is particularly pronounced in Italy, where men represent nearly 70% of the country's...
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The new coronavirus has infected more than 2 million people worldwide,...
The number of coronavirus cases exceeded 2 million overnight on Tuesday.Deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, now stands at more than 128,000. Some countries have begun to lift...
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Here is how we ranked the best cities to live in after coronavirus
Business Insider recently published a ranking of the best US cities to live in after coronavirus.To do this, we compiled nine different metrics from government sources and academic research that we...
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How we ranked the best countries for Americans to move to after the pandemic
Business Insider recently published a list of the best countries for Americans to move to after the coronavirus pandemic.We used five metrics from surveys and data sets that looked at climate and...
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The pandemic might be the worst thing to hit summer jobs for teenagers since...
A study conducted by Drexel University's Center for Labor Markets and Policy, as reported last month by The New York Times, found that coronavirus-related lockdowns are likely to negatively impact teen...
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