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Cuba's Population Free-Fall Isn't Slowing — 1.6 Million Gone Since 2020

Cuba's own statistics office says the island lost 1.6M people since 2020 and could fall to 5.6M by 2100 as births hit record lows.

Latin Times · Jul 2

“This Is Insanity”: 83 Dystopian ‘Urban Hell’ Photos That Show The True Price Of Modern Life (New Pics)

The dystopias you see in movies, books, TV shows, and video games might be closer to reality than you might want to believe. Many cities and dwellings are far from the positive environments that you envision human beings would thrive in. The members of the sprawling ‘Urban Hell’ online group…

Bored Panda · Mar 26

The Crunch: crowded prisons; triangle election revelations; and the power of the measles vaccine

Another election triangle offers up post-poll insight, plus some heroic bar charts and we go off the (pie) charts

The Guardian - AU · May 23, 2025

The Cost of Loneliness in Retirement

Accounting for the cost of loneliness is just as important as financial planning.

Kiplinger · Feb 25, 2024

Hannah Ritchie: ‘Doomsday predictions are a dream for climate deniers’

The environmental scientist, whose book Not the End of the World offers a data-based analysis of the climate crisis, on being informed and engaged without succumbing to despair

The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024

Is Boris Johnson right that UK had fewer Covid deaths than much of Europe?

We fact check the assertion at the Covid inquiry that Britain was ‘well down the European table, and well down the world table’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023

Holy cow: Will lab-grown meat save the world or wreck it?

Can lab-grown meat save chicken and cows from slaughter, and feed poorer countries, without wrecking the environment?

The New Daily · Jun 24, 2023

Is the collapse of Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire the end of Effective Altruism?

The one-time billionaire was closely associated with Effective Altruism. Now some fear for the movement's future.

Fortune · Nov 15, 2022

Australia 'miles behind' in healthcare technology, experts say. From PCRs to RATs to breath tests, what will the future of COVID-19 testing look like?

As COVID-19 varaints evolve and become more transmissible, many are wondering whether we're likely to get a variant that can elude testing. Here's what some experts think the future of COVID testing will look like.

ABC News · Aug 2, 2022

Covid vaccine figures lay bare global inequality as global target missed

Only one in seven people in low-income countries are fully vaccinated with poorest pushed to the ‘back of the queue’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2022