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Percentage of obese and overweight adults in 2024.

It seems that the majority of parents in Western countries are now in favor of banning social media for children and teenager under 16 years old. There are good arguments in favor of that. The problem has always been the implementation itself. The UK has just passed the ban on social media for...

The reason why topics such as abortion and immigration are so controversial in the US is mainly because Evangelical Christians hold such strong negative views about both, which clash not just with the beliefs of Atheists and Agnostics, but also with those of Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Catholics...

College students were given a list of 20 potential "hot topics" and asked which ones are the most uncomfortable to discuss on their campus. I'm surprised that just discussing abortion is still such a taboo in US society, even among college students who are by definition young and educated...

An interesting study called Danish Exceptionalism: Explaining the Unique Increase in Social Trust Over the Past 30 Years show us something unexpected. A lot of Americans today argue that the Nordic model could not be applied to American society because of the low level of trust between...

Diffusion of weighing technology Source: Nicola Ialongo, Lorenz Rahmstorf

Rapid urbanisation: in 2000, there were only two African cities with more than 5 million inhabitants; today there are nearly twenty, and by 2050 there will be twice that number. There are already 106 African cities with at least 1 million inhabitants! The craziest thing is that Kenya...

Two interesting charts from this study. On the left, online victimhood versus liberal democracy index. On the right, online victimhood versus inequality index. People who are hostile in political discussions online are also hostile offline Figure 2b visually demonstrates how strongly...

A major new study published in Nature in May 2026 shows that the global obesity epidemic is not uniform: in many high‑income countries, the rise in obesity has slowed and plateaued (and in some cases may even slightly reverse), while in low‑ and middle‑income countries it continues to...

When arguing with someone, please stick to the one of the three types of response at the top of the pyramid below.

Evolution of wealth inequalities in European countries from 2010 to 2021 In countries like Austria, the Netherlands, or Ireland, the lower and lower middle classes (bottom 40%) and middle classes (next 50%) are getting richer, while the upper middle and upper classes (top 10%) are getting...

This chart shows the estimated GDP per capita in the early Roman Empire (around $1000) and other periods in European history. To put this into perspective, $1000 is about the same as Ethiopia or Congo today. It's only in the 19th century that Europe's GDP per capita climbed above this level.

Germanic countries have much better cycling infrastructure than other countries, although cities like Warsaw and Paris are catching up.

How can you protect your privacy while enforcing age verification? How can you stop kids under 18 to use VPN to bypass age restrictions? That's the questions debated in this video. EU Made Simple also explains the new EU digital wallet app which will become available in every EU country by the...

Here are the Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups of the elite and non-elite individuals. R1a clearly dominates the elite paternal lineages. Interestingly, the majority of elite maternal lineages are East Asian.

These two charts show the percentage of people who approve of the switch from communism to democracy (top chart) and to market economy (bottom chart) as of 2019. Poles, East Germans and Czechs embraced the change most enthusiastically. The countries most nostalgic for communism, Russia, Ukraine...

Number of times the Tour de France passed through. The whole of Belgium is more part of the Tour de France than most of central France.

TL;DR: A new study in Nature Human Behaviour argues that political hostility on social media isn't primarily caused by anonymity or algorithms — it's driven by offline economic inequality and weak democratic institutions. People in less democratic and less economically equal countries report...

There is no way to know without testing for deep clades, which unfortunately they didn't.

Wealth per capita by Italian province. People in the wealthiest provinces are in average about four times richer than the poorest. Note that this is not GDP per capita, but accumulated personal wealth/assets.