Dr. Randal S. Olson

Pew's 2026 data shows the youngest U.S. adults use AI chatbots the most, yet they are also the most likely to expect AI to harm society.

Since ChatGPT, employment for U.S. workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed jobs has fallen about 12%, while every older age group held steady or grew.

As the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis stoked U.S. oil fears, only about 7% of U.S. crude imports actually pass through it.

Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on June 12, 2026.

The 2026 Knicks-Spurs Finals averaged 20.6 million viewers, double last year and the most since 1998, reversing a long slide in NBA TV ratings.

About 1 in 8 U.S. adults now take a GLP-1 like Ozempic, but use peaks in middle age: 22% at ages 50-64, falling to 9% at 65+ as Medicare stops covering it.

Dobbs was supposed to cut U.S. abortions.

U.S. immigration detention hit a record 70,000+ people in early 2026, and TRAC data shows about 7 in 10 detainees have no criminal conviction.

The 48 nations at the 2026 World Cup span a 2,181x gap in population, from the United States (340M) to Curaçao (156,000), the smallest ever to qualify.

Nearly 1 in 3 Gen Z women in the U.S. identifies as LGBTQ+, versus 12% of Gen Z men.

U.S. beekeepers lost a record 55.6% of their colonies in 2024-25, yet the total number of managed honey bee colonies has barely moved in 15 years.

Atmospheric CO2 hit a record 432 ppm in May 2026, but the deeper story is the pace: CO2 is now piling up about 3 times faster than it did in the 1960s.

A recent U.S. college degree long meant lower unemployment than the average worker.

U.S. gas prices jumped nearly 60% since January in the 2026 oil crisis, but adjusted for inflation they sit below the 1981, 2008, and 2022 peaks.

Across 40 OECD economies, the countries that log the most annual hours have the lowest output per hour.

Of the 16.4 million who served in World War II, the VA projects about 31,000 U.S. veterans are still alive in 2026, nearing zero by the early 2040s.

A streamgraph of 1.2 million master-level games shows the King's Pawn losing ground, the Queen's Pawn rising, and the Sicilian taking over after 1945.

By the misery index the U.S. economy is unremarkable, yet consumer sentiment is at an all-time low.

Felix Rosenqvist beat David Malukas by 0.0233 seconds at the 2026 Indianapolis 500, breaking the 1992 closest-finish record that had stood for 34 years.

From 2003 to 2025 the Atlantic named-storm total fell outside NOAA's May range 9 times, 8 of them underforecasts.

Pew Research finds Republicans and Democrats traded places on inflation worry from 2024 to 2026, even though CPI rose less than a percentage point.

The U.S. reported 2,288 measles cases in 2025 and 1,842 by May 7, 2026, 23x the typical post-elimination year.

The U.S. registered nurse workforce has split into two extremes: 1 in 5 RNs are now 65 or older, and the under-30 share fell to a 10-year low.

Year over year, U.S. federal civilian employment is shrinking faster than at any point since 1939 outside wars and the decennial Census.

In the 2026 World Happiness Report, all but one Latin American country scores above what income predicts.

In 2025, the U.S. imported 2.7 billion pounds of fresh avocados.

Winning times at the Kentucky Derby improved steadily from 1896 through 1973, then hit a wall.

Teen pregnancy was a defining U.S. public health worry of the 1990s.

U.S. drug overdose deaths peaked at 107,941 in 2022, then fell two years in a row to a provisional 70,000 in 2025: a 35% drop from the peak.

The CDC reported in April 2026 that the U.S. general fertility rate fell to 53.1 in 2025, a record low in data going back to 1909.

After Apollo 17 in 1972, every crewed mission stayed inside low Earth orbit.

On April 26, 2026, Kenya's Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30 at London to become the first man to break two hours in a record-eligible marathon.

The U.S. imported a record 13.7 MMb/d of oil in 2005.

Every Atlantic tropical cyclone from 1980 to 2025 on one map.

Kyoto's 1,200-year cherry blossom record shows modern decades hold the earliest cluster of blooms ever seen.

John Korir broke a 15-year-old Boston Marathon course record in 2026.

Two decades of IMLS data show U.S. libraries were successfully pivoting from book warehouses to community hubs.

Community mirrors of the @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package spilled 513k lines of TypeScript.

The U.S. had roughly 12,000 bowling alleys at the peak of the bowling boom in the mid-1960s.

Engraving dominated the 1800s until photography killed it. 270 years of book data show how every generation picks its own art forms.

Between 1945 and 1998, seven countries detonated over 2,000 nuclear weapons across just a handful of remote test sites.

A treemap of BLS data shows where the average American household spent its $78,535 in 2024.

A county-level map of how racial diversity changed across America between the 2010 and 2020 Census.

A county-level map of racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S., built from 2020 Census data.

USDA data reveals how the American diet has transformed since 1970.

Computer Science and Engineering remain below 25% women after 50 years.

In 1970, a student could work 5 hours per week at minimum wage to cover public university tuition.

In 1960, Americans lived 1.5 years longer than peers in wealthy nations.

Coal went from generating half of U.S. electricity to just 15% in two decades. 75 years of EIA data show how fast the American power grid is changing.

U.S. marriage rates have fallen 42% since the 1980s.