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A detailed map of the Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Summary Contrary to the usual story that wealth automatically helps close gender gaps, this new study finds that as countries get richer, the gender gap in STEM graduation actually gets wider—with men increasingly outnumbering women in science, tech, engineering, and math degrees in more...

The top 0.1% may own 15% of the country's wealth, but the top 0.0001% already owns 12%! That's three times more than in 2018. So it's not really the top 0.1% that is extremely rich. It's just a dozen families.

Not Mycenaen, but contemporary. A fist-shaped silver Hittite drinking vessel from ca. 1450-1300 BCE. It was used in rituals relating to Teshub, the storm god, who is depicted on the cuff relief scene. It is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. (Photo from Classical Mythology)

The reason behind childlessness is not the because people to do not want children anymore. In fact, over three quarters of people who don't have children in their late thirties said they still want them. The UN just published the results of a massive survey of 108,000 young adults 18-39 in 73...

World cultures classified on two axes: Traditional values vs Secular-rational values Survival values vs Self-expression values Interesting how countries like China, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine, and Bulgaria have secular rational values combined with survival values. Apart from South Korea...

Psychologists have long assumed a simple rule: more religion equals more happiness. A 2011 study published in Mental Health, Religion & Culture by Luke W. Galen and colleagues overturned that tidy narrative, revealing that the real predictor of well-being isn't faith itself but the certainty...

Countries like France, Italy and Turkey have huge disparities in employment rates between regions. But no country has bigger regional variations than Canada, which will probably come as a surprise to most people.

According to the Copernicus June 2026 report, this month of June was the hottest ever recorded in Europe, standing at +3°C above pre-industrial averages. France was the worst affected by the heat waves and so it's June average soaring +9°C above pre-industrial averages. July is well...

Use of Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter and Snapchat sharply decreases with age. Facebook and Pinterest are considerably more popular among women than men, while Reddit has the highest percentage of male users. College educated and higher earning individuals are more likely than average to use...

Share of formal sector workers whose job legally requires a government-issued licence Countries in Northern and Western Europe are less controlling. India, South Africa and Australia are the most controlling.

Population density of Europe around 1600

A lot of people outside the US do not realize just how much taxes can vary between states. The difference between US states in this regard is often larger than between European countries. Many people also believe that taxes are lower in the United States than in Europe, but it really depends on...

Have you noticed how of the 7 teams that remain today all of them, except Norway, are in the top 10 of birth places of World Cup players? It's like those countries are breeding grounds for the world's best players that they are then exporting to other countries, but probably keeping the best for...

Long story short: On 9 July 2026, the European Parliament voted on whether to extend the temporary “Chat Control 1.0” regime that allows tech companies to scan private messages and emails for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). A majority of MEPs present voted against the measure (314 to 276)...

Although I tend to agree, it would be very hard to enforce teams based on ethnicities. However, it can easily be based on citizenship and country of birth. In previous World Cups the percentage of players who did not play for their country of birth was around 10% but this year it is 23.2%...

The top 0.1% of Americans are close to owning 15% of the country's wealth. The top 10% now owns almost 70% of the total wealth.

Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF)—often simply referred to as "investment" in economic terms—measures how much money an economy is actively putting into productive assets like machinery, buildings, and infrastructure, rather than immediate consumption. Because it isolates new and second-hand...

Ethiopia is currently constructing the largest airport in the world, which will have a capacity of 110 million passengers annually. It should be completed in 2030. This video shows what it will look like. Quite stunning.

Change in permanent migration between 2019 and 2024 Could you have guessed that Poland, Lithuania and Spain were the countries with the biggest increase in the number of long-term immigrants recently? In contrast, less and less people are moving to countries like Germany, Sweden, and Norway.