Every State’s Most Valuable Export
Eighty feet below lower Manhattan is a massive vault containing, as of 2019, nearly a half-million gold bars. What sounds like a setup to a heist film is in real life the basement of…
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Acronyms That Don’t Always Mean What You Think They Do
Languages are full of acronyms – words made up of the initials and/or initial components of longer words. They’ve been around at least since Roman times and are found in many languages, including Chinese,…
50 Most Successful Restaurant Chains in America
The pandemic has been particularly tough on the restaurant business, claiming thousands of casualties nationwide as even longstanding iconic institutions like the Pacific Dining Car in Los Angeles, K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans,…
Cities at the Greatest Risk of Hurricane Disaster This Year
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season kicked off in June and will run through Nov. 1, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration already predicts above-average hurricane activity this year. NOAA is projecting 14 to…
The Most Racially Diverse American Suburbs
Suburbs – once considered to be far whiter than urban areas – are diversifying, according to a recent report from Brookings, a nonprofit public policy organization. Across the country, certain suburban zones surrounding major…
Cities Americans Are Flocking To
With the pandemic facilitating remote work and allowing more Americans to move to places away from their jobs, some are taking the opportunity to move to more desired areas, be it for warmer weather…
States Recovering the Fastest From High Unemployment
In May 2020, the U.S. was digging out from its COVID-19 recession, the country’s shortest economic contraction on record. Thanks to lockdown and other public health measures aimed at combating the coronavirus spread, the…
Fastest Growing Industries in America
Unless you’re committed to working in a struggling or challenging industry, like journalism or acting, the best way to ensure job security outside of highly technical fields that require advanced degrees is to look…
These Are the Places Most Likely to Have Wildfires
Since January, nearly 32,000 wildfires have scorched more 3.3 million acres in the U.S., the National Interagency Fire Center estimates. Currently, 50 active fires are burning across 1.7 million acres. Sadly, the agency says…
Are Corporations Keeping Their Promise to Fight Climate Change?
With the climate crisis looming larger, it is becoming ever more clear that humanity must radically change its habits to avoid devastating, irreversible consequences. As of March of 2021, 21% of the world’s 2,000…
Foods With a Strikingly Low Impact on the Environment
“Eat your veggies!” That mantra has been drilled into Americans since childhood, and most of us are following that sound advice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey…
Best Cities for Bagel Lovers
According to a report published by Statista, over 202 million Americans ate bagels in 2020. Although bagel lovers are passionate about what makes a good one – most will cite a crispy exterior and…
Fastest Growing Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree
History is filled with extinct occupations. Most of these jobs were accessible to people with the least formal education, from lamplighters to switchboard operators. (These are jobs that used to be common but no…
Classic Songs That Have Returned to the Billboard Hot 100
The lifecycle of a hit song is pretty well-defined: A song is released, it works its way up the charts, stays there for a little while, and eventually falls off, living on in the…
Cities Where the Record for Most Murders Was Broken Last Year
The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered a lot of economic and physical hardship to the world. Millions of Americans lost their jobs in the first year of the outbreak alone, and businesses of all kinds…
Most Popular States for National Park Visits
On March 1, 1872, the U.S. Congress established Yellowstone as the world’s first national park. Situated mostly in what would later become the state of Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park was placed under control of…
Trust in the Supreme Court the Year You Were Born
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Friday the half a century old Roe V. Wade precedent, revoking women’s constitutional right to abortion. The ruling came a day after the nation’s highest court struck down a…
The Worst Comedies of All Time
Whether it’s due to bad acting, sloppy screenwriting, an over-reliance on crude humor, or some combination of the above, bad comedy is an absolute chore to sit through. That makes it unique – different…
States With the Most Bars Per Person
Bars are a seemingly ubiquitous part of the American landscape. Even small towns with one stoplight probably have a local watering hole where workers can let off steam after a long day or shoot…
States Where Abortion Will Be Illegal
On Friday, June 24, the United States Supreme Court overruled the 1973 Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to abortion. The question of abortion’s legality will now be left to the states. The decision…