The increase in depression is most correlated with the increase in inflammatory autoimmune diseases and with significant changes in...
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The NET outcome of lives saved minus lives lost is likely between 11,000 and 115,000 additional deaths each decade...
At least 75 percent of the human genome consists of non-functional, junk DNA. The functional portion of the...
U.S. stocks gained 21% for the first two years of the Trump administration. versus 71.2% in the first two...
Deaths from opioids have increased by 753% since 1999, but deaths from cocaine and methamphetamines have increased by approximately...
Deaths from opioids have increased by 753% since 1999, but deaths from cocaine and methamphetamines have increased by approximately...
There were about 2.5 million people living in the United States' original 13 States in 1776.
Over the last 60 years, the number of democracies has doubled and the number of autocracies has been cut...
In 2017, the entire world produced about $127.8 trillion of wealth (GDP).
The average American spends about 70 minutes per day consuming news.
0% of economists expressed support for tariffs in a recent poll.
3,222 Americans have been killed in terrorist attacks from 9/11/2001 through 12/31/2016, including perpetrators and excluding deaths in Afghanistan...
Worldwide, nearly 44 million people have Alzheimer’s or related dementia. An estimated 5.8 million Americans of all ages are...
Prioritize Your To-Do List By Converting Costs and Benefits To Present Value There is an infinite number of ways you...
Research has also found that autistic children often experience chronic gastrointestinal problems a lot more frequently than children without...
Americans spend more than $60 billion annually to try to lose weight, on everything from paying for gym memberships...
You have a 1 in 96 chance of dying of an opioid overdose. You have a 1 in 7...
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.