The Human Rights Campaign's social media blitz was so effective that Facebook engineers decided to map the portions of the United States, county by county, where users were most likely to change their avatar.
Longer lines! Fewer flights! Doomsday delays! So let's not further fan the fire: This chart shows which sectors would be hit hardest by cuts to federal grants to states — amounting to $427.6 billion over the next ten years.
Here's a breakdown of the official (non-Congressional) professions of the 113th Congress, farmers and ranchers included.
Do you remember compatibility tests you'd do in junior high or high school to see which of your classmates you were best suited to be your significant other? Yeah, the Washington Post took that idea and applied it to the Supreme Court.
According to Microsoft's numbers, the biggest share of spam is for drugs
The once and maybe future frontrunner's name recognition waned since 2007
A garbage man camping out to buy the iPhone 4S may set the record at 240 hours
White House petitions point to weed as the nation's most pressing issue
Rising disapproval of the conservative movement has now reached a majority
Government dissatisfaction is the highest it's ever been, says Gallup
With the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell this week, the U.S. joins the list
Global warming won't be kind to sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia
Obama has a 75 percent approval rating on foreign affairs in Europe
The poverty rate's jumped to 22 percent for U.S. minors, while staying only 9 percent for seniors
Say you found a great article on the Internet. Which network should you share it on?
The most powerful predictor of mistrusting Muslims: trusting Fox News
2011 has been both the hottest and driest summer for Texas in at least 116 years
From 2009 to 2010 there was a 30 percent surge in air traffic between the two nations
While Americans as a whole are evenly divided, differences crop up along religious lines
Traffic to main daily coupon sites Groupon and LivingSocial declined in July
A new poll reveals which business sectors are the best and least liked among Americans
Overall, global obesity rates have doubled since 1980
Two-thirds of Americans think parents need to put more pressure on students
Most also say they do worse in classes without them
Data predicts the situation in Africa will get worse before it gets better
They end up spending about half their time doing leisure activities
Paul ranks 10th among candidates in news coverage
Competition from Facebook and Twitter has put pressure on the photo-sharing site
It's more than doubled since 2000, according to Moody's
They like to entertain themselves and ignore others with their phones
Only 2.7 percent of what U.S. consumers buy is Chinese made
Search and email are still the most popular online activities
Map confirms it: poverty underpins riots
The practice of anonymous tipping peaked in the 1970s, a report finds
Stanford researchers put together a map charting journalism's progress west
For different regions of the country, all smartphones are not created equal
Tea Partiers were twice as likely to contact a representative
The candidates' follower counts don't quite match what you'd expect
Opera and Camino users are the smartest; lnternet Explorer not so much
Lessons on Afghanistan, and online journalism, too
We count the number of field offices for each electoral vote to figure out priorities
But it's still nowhere near Facebook's 750 million users
"Insurance," "rehab," and "cord blood" draw top dollar on Google
Researchers look at how business reporters talk about markets as an indicator
File under macroeconomic questions you never asked
American media covered Casey Anthony more than either Blagojevich or Libby
Conservative lawmakers have found the perfect moment to pass these laws
It remains to be seen how fishing will recover in the wake of last year's oil spill
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