The people who developed dementia spent an average of 17 percent of their sleep time in REM sleep, compared...
The US accounts for about 37 percent of total global military spending, but only represents 4.4 percent of the world’s...
The entire US Federal Budget alone is $4.4 trillion and the US population is 328,316,410. Dividing the US budget by the...
The average American pays $10,489 in “personal taxes,” representing 14% of the average household’s total income. This $10,489 includes:...
The cause of the US financial crisis is simple. It's debt. This is a very simple and graphical evidence-based...
The US spends more than $500 million per victim on anti-terrorism efforts. However, cancer research spending is only...
Many Americans consider Iran to be a psychopathically violent nation that would be willing to commit suicide in order...
The financial sector receives more of the average paycheck than any other sector of the economy. Its share of...
There's less than a 0.00001% chance that your vote will be the tiebreaker that decides the outcome of a...
This is a rigorous analysis from the brilliant utilitarian mind of Brian Tomasik originally published at http://www.utilitarian-essays.com in 2005. I made this...
A world without disease, starvation, violence, and suffering is the ultimate destination of humanity. Getting there will require voters...
World governments are spending $1.8 TRILLION each year finding ways to murder us and destroy our property.
Dear President Obama, I know you’re very busy, so I’m very sorry to bother you with this. However, I think what I have...
The mythology of effective Keynesian centralized economic planning is born of the same mother as the mythology of creationist...
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the value of all final goods and services produced within a country. The reason GDP matters is...
Jonathan Baron proposes this Utilitarian Party platform: Utilitarians try to help people achieve their rational goals. We focus on the...
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of...
In response to recent allegations that Anheuser-Busch has been watering down its beer to boost profits, my lab used gas chromatography...
On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, “the adversary’s closer to home....
A multitude of constantly updated world statistics that puts the current state of human existence—on this lonely blue orb—in...
The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential was the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on...
From algosphere.org: ALGONOMY : A FRAMEWORK FOR DEALING WITH SUFFERING All major spheres of human activity deal in one way...
The felicific calculus is an algorithm for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause. The algorithm is...
One of the most cost effective solutions that will be evaluated by the Crowdsourcing Utopia system is David Pearce’s...
Here are some problems that Sebastian Nickel brought up with regard to using collective intelligence for decision making: A...
The Wisdom of Crowds is about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that are often better than...
Governor Romney™ has been scientifically proven to increase spending faster than the President Obama™! Obama has only increased government...
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging...
It is commonly claimed that government spending is good for the economy, but the statistics show the opposite. Most recent studies find a...
95% of suicide terrorist attacks are targeted at occupying foreign militaries. 0% of suicide terrorist attacks have been...
The financial sector primarily backed Romney in 2012 after having supported Obama in 2008.
GOP Candidate Ron Paul has produced a detailed budget containing over $1 trillion in first-year reductions. Mitt Romney, Rick...
Patterns of brain activity predict people’s decisions up to 10 seconds before the people are aware of them, according to...
Our representative government is not socioeconomically representative of the governed. These bitches be gettin’ paid! This begs the question,...
Bernie Sanders – U.S. Senator for Vermont WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 – Hundreds of defense contractors that defrauded the U.S....
Required viewing for anyone who does not yet understand the complicated mechanism by which the banking system transfers wealth...
Empty houses in the US = 14 million. Median Home Price = $160,000. Money Wasted on Building Unneeded Homes = $2 trillion....
A new study comparing 54 nations found that the more progressive the tax policy is, the happier the citizens...
15% of likely U.S. voters think the federal government should continue to provide funding for foreign countries to buy...
Mathematical proof that Bill Cosby is not square:
The Iraq war will end up costing at least $3 trillion. With that much money, you could end...
Now starving doctors will finally be able to afford an iPad thanks to your generous tax contribution!
About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the...
The national debt would balloon under tax policies championed by three of the four major Republican candidates for president, according to an independent...
The average household in America had to shell out around $2000 to make sure that AIG's counter-parties wouldn't have...
“Obama plans to slash deficit in half” is the title of this AP story. The attribution of fiscal responsibility...
We're taxing successful, competently run businesses to subsidize irresponsible, poorly run businesses. Until we realize this simple fact, the...
Those who say "These are extraordinary times. We can't afford to worry about the national debt now. We'll be...