Do you recognize the design of this cookie?It's a reference to a meme illustrating suvivorship bias.During World War II, the US Navy asked statistician Abraham Wald to suggest where armor should be added to planes based...

I'm glad you asked!Cutter Wood has a new book out titled Earthly Materials: Journeys through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. It examines the science of our excretory systems. An exerpt available a...

According to the respected Pew Research Center, which conducts public opinion polling on many topics, 12% of young Americans can operate a SSBN, which is one of these:The SSGNs are US nuclear-powered submarines that, ins...

Hadrian (r. 117-138) lived to the ripe old age of 62 before he died of natural causes. He was an outlier on that count. Only 25% of Roman Emperors died of peacefully. That's if you count from Augustus all the way to Cons...

AsapSCIENCE has a whole lot of statistics to show you know how normal you are. That seems a...

[https://youtu.be/bELuzigi-dM] (YouTube link)Only...  ...ing under the sun. Elliot Morgan has a roundup of statistics

Don’t be fooled by people using the word &ld...  ...is is only one of several comics illustrating how statistics

How well did Glee end? Fans were clearly delighted. I didn't see it, but I did watch the finale of Newhart, which was ingenious.Dexter rightfully deserves to be dead last in this list. Just hacking off the last 3 minutes...

What's really important for women to look for when searching for a man to marry? The most popular and growing characteristics are mutual attraction, dependable character, and maturity. Chastity used to be important, but...

During election season, we see poll after poll taken by various groups that sometimes hit the mark, more or less, and sometimes are just plain wrong. Maarten Lambrechts produced an interactive graphic called Rock ’...