Data That Matters April 2021

From 2006 through 2019 the percentage of people having recently felt stress has risen from 29% to 35%. That jumped Continue reading →

Oxygen Produced On Mars

NASA’s newest rover, Perseverance, produced oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. It only produced 4 grams or so, but the fact Continue reading →

Space Junk Threat

Something to add to 2020, the threat of space junk collisions getting real. A worry that’s been part of the Continue reading →

Data That Matters December 2019

“Go West, young man” (person, whatever) is less likely to happen as mobility in the US declined from about 20% Continue reading →

We Lost 100 Stars

It’s probably not aliens, but – aliens? A typical astronomical news item announces the discovery of a new star, galaxy, Continue reading →

Data That Matters September 2018

Currencies are crashing: India (-10%), Indonesia (-8%), Argentina (-52%), and Turkey (-42%) while Venezuela is expected to have 1,000,000% inflation this Continue reading →

Trash In Space

It sounds funny but trash is space is decidedly deadly. Of the 20,000 objects we have in orbit, 95% are Continue reading →

Fast-ish Magnetic Field Flips

The bad news: Earth’s protective magnetic field can flip so north is south, south is north. That’s bad for protecting us Continue reading →