Overall, 1 of every 140 miles is driven drunk,

carbon dioxide level some 80 million years ago—back when our mammalian ancestors were evolving—was at least 1,000 parts per million. In

The data don’t lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, all commercial flights in the United States were grounded for three days. Using data from more than four thousand weather stations across the country, scientists found that the sudden absence of contrails accounted for a subsequent rise in ground temperature of nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.1 degrees Ce

Economists have a name for the practice of charging different prices for the same product: price discrimination.

McNamara had all of Ford’s company cars outfitted with seat belts.

More experience is also valuable: an extra ten years on the job yields the same benefit as having served a residency at a top hospital.

Smith points out that cancer patients make up 20 percent of Medicare cases but consume 40 percent of the Medicare drug budget.

60 percent of Indian men have penises too small for the condoms manufactured to fit