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British families have suffered the largest fall in wealth among rich countries since the pandemic, according to the UBS Global Wealth Report 2026, as reported by the Telegraph. The average Briton’s wealth has dropped by more than a fifth over the last five years, the worst decline among the 37...

A newly published study in the British Medical Journal says that the US–UK pharmaceutical deal agreed last December could lead to 229,000 excess deaths in England by 2036 if the NHS has to divert money from other services to pay for it. That’s more than the 137,000 deaths recorded during the...

Since I started this thread in 2012, it has been confirmed that: Mesolithic European and to gatherers belonging to Haplogroups I1 and I2 had mostly blue eyes. The people of the Corded Ware culture who spread haplogroup R1a around the Baltic, Central Europe and Northeast Europe had the high...

Good work, but why didn't you use the "official" colours of haplogroups used on Eupedia? I did not choose them randomly as explained here. It's especially confusing that you inverted the colors of R1a and R1b.

A new study published in The Economic Journal finds that smarter people really are more likely to help others—and the data behind that conclusion is staggering in scale. Economists Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson mined Swedish administrative registers covering roughly 1.2 million men and a...

That is not at all my observation in Belgium. I analysed about 50 people I know well among my friends and relatives (20+ cousins) between the age of 35 and 55 to see how many children each couple had. I chose this age range because it's increasingly common for people to have children in their...

Graph showing 85 different religious traditions sorted by percentage with a bachelor's degree and the mean reported household income. Top right (richest, most educated): Jews Hindus Episcopalians Atheists Presbyterians Bottom left (poorest, least educated): Free Will Baptist Church of God...

The pay gap between the top earners and bottom earners in the UK has been narrowing over the last 25 years. Not because people at the bottom are earning more, but because people at the top are earning less.

Most and least religious countries in Europe by weekly church/mosque/temple attendance and self-rated religiosity.

For countries with a population over 20 million, Taiwan leads globally for export the values per capita, followed by Germany, Canada and South Korea. The value of exports per person in Taiwan is over four times those of Japan or the United States. However, if we take into account countries...

Among all European regions, Italy has both the regions with the highest and lowest risk of poverty. The highest in Europe is Sicily with 38.4% of the population at risk of poverty. The lowest is South Tyrol (Alto Adige), with less than 5%.

Percentage of football players who are smiling in their Panini sticker book photos by country Latin countries are more likely to smile. Muslim countries are among the least likely to smile. However, I wonder why none of the Canadian and South African players smile. 🤔

Fertility rates are typically lower in more densely populated areas and cities where property prices are higher. In the US it just happens that people in the countryside are more conservative and religious, but that is not the main reason for their increased fertility rates. If you look at the...

How can people not like adorable creatures like this?

I've never thought of mice and rats as gross. Personally, I find them very cute — certainly much cuter than many breeds of dogs. Hamsters and gerbils are in the same muridae family and many people keep them as pets. Actually, mice and rats also kept as pets.

Percentage of NEETs. Once again, it would be useful to have separate data for men and women, as many women in their 20s might just be mothers or homemakers, especially in the Balkans and Turkey.

Beyond the Genetics: The Psychological Architecture of Living to 100 When we think of centenarians—those rare individuals who reach the century mark—our minds often drift to genetics. We imagine a "longevity gene," a biological lottery ticket inherited from robust ancestors. While DNA...

In the heated landscape of modern politics, where left and right seem to speak different languages, a compelling question emerges: Are these divisions merely cultural, or do they run deeper—perhaps even into the very structure of our brains? A groundbreaking new study titled "Authoritarianism...

The summary of what ancient DNA studies have taught us over the last 15 years.

The legislation about sex education in Europe varies widely by country as well. Countries where it is not compulsory typically have much higher teen pregnancy rates. The most notable cases are Romania and Bulgaria (rates of 33.8 and 39.1 per thousand). However some countries have no mandatory...