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The average American's annual food waste, water use, energy consumption,...
The United States comprises about 5% of the world's population.However, Americans consume an far more than that share of the world's food, water, and energy. They also generate a lot of emissions and...
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Here's how we ranked the economies of America's biggest cities
To look closer at the US economy as it varies by metro area, we looked at five measures of economic health.We used those measures to establish to ranking of the 40 biggest metro areas in the US.Cities...
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YouTube now has over 1.8 billion users every month, within spitting distance...
YouTube is now pulling in over 1.8 billion users every month — and that's just the people who are logged in.That makes YouTube Google's most popular service, with even more users than Gmail.YouTube's...
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State media in China boasted that their healthy life expectancy is now better...
China was celebrating this week after new figures put its "healthy life expectancy" ahead of the US.Chinese people can now expect 68.7 years of healthy life, compared to 68.5 for Americans.The US...
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Babies cry in the womb and 18 other surprising facts I learned when I became...
First came the awe and elation at my wife's pregnancy. We were finally starting a family!In the next moment, an "Oh s--t!"panic sunk in.To counter the fear of becoming new parents we both read. And...
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Here's how we ranked the economies of the 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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Elon Musk says a new study about aliens gives humans even more reason to...
Elon Musk says we need to colonize space because we may be the only intelligent civilization.His comments were inspired by a draft study from Oxford University researchers that looks at the Drake...
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Mollie Tibbetts' death is being used to push debunked ideas about illegal...
The body of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Iowa who went missing in July, has reportedly been found.Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an immigrant to the US from Mexico, was...
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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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GOLDMAN SACHS: There's a fortune to be made analyzing sports stats
There's a fortune to be made crunching stats in a post-Moneyball world, and the potential for profit extends far beyond baseball, into everything from soccer to basketball.At the core of the story is...
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A New York man won a $343 million Powerball jackpot after playing the same...
A Manhattan man won an October Powerball jackpot after playing the same numbers every week for 25 years, according to The New York Times.However, the rules of probability and the way lotteries like...
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Here's how we ranked the most underrated colleges in America
Business Insider recently ranked the most underrated colleges in America.The ranking is based on a comparison of the schools' US News & World Report ranking with post-attendance median incomes as...
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Here's how we figured out how 'average' each state is
We recently ranked all 50 US states and Washington, DC based on how average each state was.The ranking was based on 38 social, economic, and demographic measures, mostly from the Census Bureau's 2017...
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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...
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