One in Seven People Lives With a Disability

Reuters

It's roughly the same in the U.S. and worldwide, if the survey is to be believed

By Caitlin Dickson

Jun 6, 2011

The Daily Show Last Month Beat Every Fox Show But O'Reilly's

The Daily Show gained viewers as Fox lost them

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By Caitlin Dickson

Jun 3, 2011

Every Half Hour, a Farmer in India Commits Suicide

New agricultural technology aims to end more than a decade-long trend of farmer suicides

Comments | 2,057 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Jun 1, 2011

Airlines Made $21.5 Billion from Extra Fees Last Year

Baggage, food and other fees now account for nearly a third of the airline industry

Comments | 1,296 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 31, 2011

11 Out of 85,000 Muslims Registered by Homeland Security Had Terrorism Ties

The Special Registration program, started after 9/11, was officially shut down last month

Comments | 1,042 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 27, 2011

Every 10 Minutes Spent Commuting Costs You 10% of Your Friends

The mindless, daily activity is also correlated with obesity, stress, divorce and neck pain

Comments | 1,515 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 26, 2011

Obama Has Been Scandal-Free for 28 Months

Six more months and he sets the presidential record, computes Brendan Nyhan

Comments | 1,636 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 25, 2011

By Caitlin Dickson

May 24, 2011

Harold Camping Spent Around $100 Million on Rapture Ads

That's the estimate from an employee at Family Radio

Comments | 3,276 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 23, 2011

50% of Americans Couldn't Come Up with $2,000

A survey of "financial fragility" asked if people could pay for an unexpected expense

Comments | 27,365 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 19, 2011

Katie Couric's CBS Salary Exceeds Two NPR Show Budgets Combined

You could liquidate Morning Edition and All Things Considered and still be short

Comments | 4,906 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 18, 2011

Big Oil Companies Made $200,000 Every Minute in the First Quarter

Big Five oil companies report $36 billion in profits in first quarter--do the math

Comments | 2,042 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 16, 2011

It Cost $20,000 to Break 541 Taliban Prisoners Out of Jail

An article in a Taliban magazine details its latest prison break

Comments | 515 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 13, 2011

What If Poor People Can't Physically Get to the Low-Skill Jobs?

A new study suggests high-skill jobs are the ones with better public transit links

Comments | 662 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 12, 2011

An Insured American Family's Health Care Costs $19,393

Health care costs 7.3 percent more than it did last year, and that's not all

Comments | 1,141 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 11, 2011

48 Women Are Raped Every Hour in Congo

A new study's horrific estimate of the country's rate of violence against women

Comments | 1,683 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 10, 2011

Study Concludes a Third of Young Girls' Clothes Are 'Sexy'

Turns out, your mom was right about Abercrombie & Fitch

Comments | 2,033 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 9, 2011

How Long It Takes Stephen Hawking to Answer a Question

Given the answer, you'll look with fresh amazement upon his productivity

Comments | 7,855 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 5, 2011

The Daily Has Cost News Corp $10 Million So Far

Rupert Murdoch's iPad publication has been a pricey endeavor

Comments | 1,171 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 4, 2011

NYPD Received 62 Suspicious Package Reports on Monday

The day after Osama bin Laden's death a spike in the NYPD's typical influx of false alarms

Comments | 909 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 3, 2011

The World May Reach 10.1 Billion People by 2100

A New U.N. report suggests the world's population may grow faster than expected

Comments | 1,291 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

May 2, 2011

17 Million Americans Are Over-Qualified for Their Jobs

Today's job market sees college graduates with jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree

Comments | 4,562 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 26, 2011

Scientology Owns 484 Square Feet of Property for Every Member

The Daily's Hunter Walker adds up the church's many real estate acquisitions.

Comments | 1,267 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 25, 2011

Nearly Half of 2011's New York Times Issues Rely on WikiLeaks

The paper has cited WikiLeaks documents in 54 of its 115 issues this year

Comments | 7,014 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 21, 2011

Palin's Media Coverage Down 40 Percentage Points Since November

Nate Silver calculates the just how far the GOP star's coverage has fallen

Comments | 1,089 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 20, 2011

Wage-Disparity Watch: Female Hotdog-Eaters Getting Cheated

78 cents? Nope: Female winner of Nathan's contest only gets a quarter of male prize

Comments | 509 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 14, 2011

Federal Prosecutions of Bankers Are Down 96% Since 1995

A figure that explains why no bankers have faced prosecution for the financial crisis

Comments | 344 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 13, 2011

One U.S. Nuclear Reactor Uses as Much Water as All of D.C.

A typical U.S. nuclear power plant uses 30 million gallons of water an hour

Comments | 1,198 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 11, 2011

Federal Debt Grew by $54.1 Billion During Fight to Cut $38.5 Billion

As the spending battle raged on, the federal debt grew to $14.2642 trillion

Comments | 3,588 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 5, 2011

500,000 More People Have Seen the Obama Parody Than The Real Ad

The National Republican Senatorial Committee's April Fools' Day joke is pretty popular

Comments | 1,267 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 1, 2011

The U.S. Has Dropped 76% of the Bombs in Libya

The coalition may be multinational, but most of the military force is American

Comments | 2,832 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Mar 29, 2011

NBC Matched Its Haiti Spending on Day One of Japan Coverage

You won't believe what networks spend to cover disasters

Comments | 862 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Mar 28, 2011

Time Put Women Politicians on Their Cover Four Times in 20 Years

That's as many times as Geraldine Ferraro made the cover in 1984 alone

Comments | 514 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Mar 24, 2011

A 1.4-Inch Hole Spilled 4.9 Million Barrels of Oil into the Gulf

Engineers discover that BP's giant spill came through a hole the size of two dimes

Comments | 998 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Mar 23, 2011

Thank NCAA: Richmond Admissions Site Sees 48 Percent More Traffic

The NCAA tournament sparks interest not only in the team, but the school, too

Comments | 89 Views

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