So it's tax season again and we wonder: why are taxes so high; what do our taxes go to funding? Globally, taxes are much higher in the developed nations than they are in the developing nations. The best way to illustrate this is to compare total taxation to total individual earnings. In this case, compare billable taxes to the GDP for each country.
After the most recent State of the Union address by President Obama, a former speech writer for President G. W. Bush, Marc Thiessen, claimed that parts of the speech may have been plagiarized from Bush's 2007 speech. By analyzing transcripts of the speeches, can we confirm or reject this claim?
Word Cloud - President Obama - State of the Union speech 2014
The chances that a country will win a medal at the Olympic games could be depend upon how many exceptional athletes live in that country. And the number of exceptional athletes might depend solely upon the sheer number of people living in that country.
Not everything can be predicted. It seems like there's no place where this is truer than when it comes to love and romance.
Super Bowl Squares are a popular past time where sports fans guess (bet on) the outcome of one of game. But what numbers should people chose?
A lot of cities claim to have the most affordable housing. What frustrates me is the lack of comparisons between regions.
You might be surprised to learn where the richest people live. Is it New York? Is it San Francisco?
If you live on the West coast, you've probably noticed that houses seem more expensive than they do in other areas of the country.
Recently I saw that the weather in my home state of Minnesota was colder than the average surface temperature on Mars (as measured by the curiosity rover).
The Holiday season is full of food, fun, and lots of turkeys. I'm referring to the dozy food, not the black Friday shoppers. This begs the question, where do all of these turkeys come from?
