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[Bloomberg Opinion @opinion]

Phone thefts in London are soaring. Here’s why 🎥

[Autumn 🍁🍉✨ @mizzoumalek23]

Seeing as the 2024 election is over, here’s a thread of what the electoral map would’ve looked like had only X demographic voted:

For example, here is the electoral map had turnout been 100%

[Marie Patino @mariepastora]

Follow along for the @BBGVisualData jello map, an endeavour that has taken almost as long as our actual election maps

[Nathan Yau @flowingdata]

Election probabilities tell you about possible outcomes over many tries, but for U.S. presidents, we only get one try per four years. Then we live with that outcome. Here's an interactive chart:

https://t.co/ffVySkToRr

[Nathan Yau @flowingdata]

Respect the Twix.

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

Here is a handy graph:

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[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

As a reminder,

The US has had 46 presidents. Among them, there have been 91 criminal felony charges indicted. Those charges are distributed among the presidents as in the following list:

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[Elena Mejía @elena___mejia]

Migrants in swing states are settling in blue counties that saw GDP growth, while fewer settled in red counties that need workers to bolster the economy.

My latest for @BBGVisualData with @sdonnan: https://t.co/vrOWeHe1FY

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

It’s really striking how the Corbynite left has migrated to the Greens.

The result is a curious coalition between the older and more Nimby environmentalist base, and the new hard left/progressive influx.

These are quite different people with quite different politics!

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I still haven't seen a satisfactory explanation for the finding that men are much stronger than women even when they're equally muscular.

[Eric Fan @ericfan_journo]

Every year, a lottery determines who gets an H-1B visa to work in the US. The game, it turns out, is rigged.

Outsourcing and staffing firms are exploiting loopholes, crowding out US employers and immigrants who play it fair.

We have exclusive data to show it for the 1st time 🧵

[Alex @notcomplex_]

The Chinese Communist Revolution consolidated its power by taking land from the elite. In the following generation, the previous elite once again reclaimed their social advantage.

This is not an isolated phenomenon: A Thread on the persistence of status 🧵

[SolarSteph 🌞 @slyardley]

A lot of people have asked how big the group of sunspots is compared to Earth, hopefully this will give you an idea. ~14x🌎

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

This is not true. It has never been true. It is based partly on a misunderstanding FBI data and partly based on a widely perpetuated lie.

A thread.

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

@foardeetou @Leah_Starz Ruin my agenda? I keep posting it here all the time.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

The meter was very nearly defined as the length of a pendulum such that the period is exactly two seconds.

This would mean the strength of gravity, measured in meters and seconds, is exactly pi squared.

But it's not - a short thread on the importance of units🧵

[Erik Hoel @erikphoel]

1. Where do superstar scientists come from? Other superstar scientists.

Even when you control for everything resume-wise, protégés of soon-to-be-famous scientific mentors (orange) had way more future research impact than their IQ-matched peers (blue)

[Matt Loszak | Aalo Atomics @MattLoszak]

If you think the energy transition is going well, look at this:

Not only is clean energy barely even visible on a graph of energy use globally,

But oil and gas is still growing.

What’s going on here? (🧵)

[Marie Patino @mariepastora]

What's in your scented shampoo? It's not very clear at all -- with @dani_lsc and @madcampb, we took a look at fragrance ingredients in your daily cosmetic products (also i taught myself Blender for this so pls read): https://t.co/cuharXzaEg

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

A new study of the relationship between intelligence and politics just came out.

The relationship everyone knows holds up: more intelligent people tended to have more left-wing views!

Let's explore🧵