Oreo posted this picture on their Facebook page last night and commenters expressed disapproval with a mature and rational discussion of the issues.
Confidence in U.S. public schools plunged to a scary new all-time low — just 29 percent! And schools aren’t alone. Across the board, it looks like Americans are losing faith in institutions.
Other record lows were recorded for the church or organized religion, 44 percent; banks, 21 percent; and television news, 21 percent.
Congress ranked last — as it has for the last three years — at 13 percent.
— ICYMI
(via npr)
The top 10 causes of death in the United States 1900-2010, based on 200 years of back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine, in an effort to see if we’ve made progress. While overall mortality is down, leading causes heart disease and cancer persevere largely undeterred.
Full interactive feature here.
Awesome visualization of what’s killing us, then and now. Look at that ridiculous spike for the 1918 flu (which killed 3% of the world’s population)!
Cancer and heart disease may still be out of control, but we got your number, cholera and tuberculosis!
Wes Anderson on-set Moonrise Kingdom, Photographed by Niko Tavernise.
(via tinyyellowbird)
