I don't know when that red/blue crap got started, but I have to stop and figure it out every time I see it.

These days, women outnumber men in grad school 139-100.

http://cellar.org/img/mfgrad.jpg

Our shrinking frontier...

Stereotypes... they asked a whopping 1000 people.

Who's is funding the anti-climate change troops?

Smart because I'm pretty. :blush:

How does [whatever news thing] affect Trump's approval? No. :::swats America's nose with a newspaper:::

Left wing hippie teachers. ;)

http://cellar.org/img/womenvoteeverywhere.jpg

The sole exception is Vatican City, which in 2011 had a grand total of 32 female citizens.

(Vatican City is an absolute monarchy, headed by the Pope. It holds no elections, so neither male nor female citizens have the right to vote. However, the Pope is elected - by the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church, which women cannot join.)

I heard about one of them. She had to be blind, deaf and mute... with big boobs. :yesnod:

The ladies are pretty critical...

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Where they met...

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Hooked up...

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But less divorce...

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Versus the "historical norms" of... 2008?

I think they're saying during this period we have the ability to make more informed decisions than the historical norm.

Hysterical Norm?

http://cellar.org/img/growthpollutesless.jpg

One of those hopeful graphs, cos that is how it works around the world - if you're clawing for a job, the condition of the air isn't your first concern. But once you get enough scratch to start considering other things, pollution becomes something you worry about, since it is hurting your quality of life. Once you have a middle class, they are going to demand change.

Apparently New Delhi pollution rates were off the charts last week

If you use windy.com, you can Show / Add more layers and select PM2.5 to show air pollution. PM2.5 refers to smaller particulate matter in the air (smoke is little particles, I assume) that is more dangerous to health.

I suppose larger particulates get partially filtered out by nose hair and the body's other natural defences, but smoke goes all the way in to deposit it's chemicals in the lungs. cough cough

Yup that seems to be what the size is about... there is also a PM10, but that is apparently just annoying, compared to PM2.5 which is supposed to be dangerous.

The proliferation of selfies has spurred a surge in makeup sales for everything but perfume.
You can't smell a selfie.

I can't help but feel something is really systematically broken when the young people are not fucking.

Well maybe mom won't allow it in her basement, or the constant eye of Big Brother, then there's this...

That, right thar, is why you should always video record your sexual encounters.



















And post them in Teh Cellah!:evil3:

An unscientific survey of the most annoying critter in each state.

When you get that Tesla truck with the pop-up camping accessory, you can do a tour of National parks. It's a long trip but just keep plugging away at it.

New Orleans is a hemorrhoid on the anus of 7,000 rivers.

Predominant Thanksgiving side dish.

:eyebrow:

I don't know about my neighbors, but I had only one bun. I had seconds of dressing or stuffing. And so did everybody else.

I simply do not believe that Thanksgiving sides chart. There's no way.

Maybe--maybe--if it's one of those "most unusually popular" calculations where it compares "what's highest here that's also lowest everywhere else" as opposed to just a straight majority.

Otherwise, it's baloney. (Which I hear is the most popular Thanksgiving side dish in Oklahoma.)

Nearly half of the humans who ever lived were killed by mosquitoes so this is real progress...

I'm still pissed off about the mac and cheese. I'm not ready for good news.

Thanks, Bill Gates!

Yes, I think the Gates Foundation is a big factor in this.

More good news...

This one has me confused, maybe you can figure it out. The PPP and the blocks before Ethiopia and after the US to make 100% population.

PPP is just them saying "when everyone's money is translated onto a standard playing field"--kind of like how the salaries are higher in NYC, but a sandwich also costs 3 times as much so you're not really making as much as you think you are. They've calculated how much actual buying power each country has.

As for the rich sliver to the right of the U.S., I'd guess a small hideout of billionaires that is only technically a sovereign nation--maybe an island owned by Richard Branson, or Vatican City, something like that. To the left of Ethiopia could be any number of tiny, dirt-poor countries that they figured folks wouldn't recognize as readily.

according to this page there are 11 countries with higher than USA GDP per-capita based on PPP

Wikipedia lists the ranking with three different sources

Seems to me there is a lot of data massaging and fudge factoring involved with the PPP.
Of course neither GDP nor PPP tell how well the average Joe/Jolene are doing. If their country is a tax haven or big supplier of IT, it might look good on paper but half the population is actually starving.

Kids will run ragged, the secret is to slow them down with ballast... like lead.

Look at PA WINNING!

But PA loses big time to Brazil when it comes to homicides.

I'm skeptical of their method, there's an awful lot of counties without live venues.

the colors in the legend are way too light, compared to the colors on the map.

House parties are a thing hereabouts, live punk shows. I suspect they are not mapped.

Most expensive Zip codes...

They don't know where Boston is.

Springfield is only 90 miles away and in the same state so they get a D. :lol:

Who's good at talkin' & writin'? We know the Brits and Aussies murder our language and the Canuks bend it a little, but how are the rest of he countries doing?

Where is Willie singing about?

The drunkest and soberest cities in the US...

Because... priorities man, priorities...

Yes, we're gonna die... sometimes from the weather...

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and sometimes from something kind of unique to our state.

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Those are kinda fun.

The suspense of not knowing if a flood or flash flood will get you makes life exciting. ;)

Most frequent cause of weather fatalities. But no Legend (no, not Willie).

How will I know when I become a relevant statistic?

You won't care anymore.

Chance of snow days shutting school...

Over-tourism is killing lots of places like Amsterdam and Venice...

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That one can't be our fault...

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