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Two interesting charts from this study. On the left, online victimhood versus liberal democracy index. On the right, online victimhood versus inequality index. People who are hostile in political discussions online are also hostile offline Figure 2b visually demonstrates how strongly...

A major new study published in Nature in May 2026 shows that the global obesity epidemic is not uniform: in many high‑income countries, the rise in obesity has slowed and plateaued (and in some cases may even slightly reverse), while in low‑ and middle‑income countries it continues to...

When arguing with someone, please stick to the one of the three types of response at the top of the pyramid below.

Evolution of wealth inequalities in European countries from 2010 to 2021 In countries like Austria, the Netherlands, or Ireland, the lower and lower middle classes (bottom 40%) and middle classes (next 50%) are getting richer, while the upper middle and upper classes (top 10%) are getting...

This chart shows the estimated GDP per capita in the early Roman Empire (around $1000) and other periods in European history. To put this into perspective, $1000 is about the same as Ethiopia or Congo today. It's only in the 19th century that Europe's GDP per capita climbed above this level.

Germanic countries have much better cycling infrastructure than other countries, although cities like Warsaw and Paris are catching up.

How can you protect your privacy while enforcing age verification? How can you stop kids under 18 to use VPN to bypass age restrictions? That's the questions debated in this video. EU Made Simple also explains the new EU digital wallet app which will become available in every EU country by the...

Here are the Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups of the elite and non-elite individuals. R1a clearly dominates the elite paternal lineages. Interestingly, the majority of elite maternal lineages are East Asian.

These two charts show the percentage of people who approve of the switch from communism to democracy (top chart) and to market economy (bottom chart) as of 2019. Poles, East Germans and Czechs embraced the change most enthusiastically. The countries most nostalgic for communism, Russia, Ukraine...

Number of times the Tour de France passed through. The whole of Belgium is more part of the Tour de France than most of central France.

TL;DR: A new study in Nature Human Behaviour argues that political hostility on social media isn't primarily caused by anonymity or algorithms — it's driven by offline economic inequality and weak democratic institutions. People in less democratic and less economically equal countries report...

There is no way to know without testing for deep clades, which unfortunately they didn't.

Wealth per capita by Italian province. People in the wealthiest provinces are in average about four times richer than the poorest. Note that this is not GDP per capita, but accumulated personal wealth/assets.

British families have suffered the largest fall in wealth among rich countries since the pandemic, according to the UBS Global Wealth Report 2026, as reported by the Telegraph. The average Briton’s wealth has dropped by more than a fifth over the last five years, the worst decline among the 37...

A newly published study in the British Medical Journal says that the US–UK pharmaceutical deal agreed last December could lead to 229,000 excess deaths in England by 2036 if the NHS has to divert money from other services to pay for it. That’s more than the 137,000 deaths recorded during the...

Since I started this thread in 2012, it has been confirmed that: Mesolithic European and to gatherers belonging to Haplogroups I1 and I2 had mostly blue eyes. The people of the Corded Ware culture who spread haplogroup R1a around the Baltic, Central Europe and Northeast Europe had the high...

Good work, but why didn't you use the "official" colours of haplogroups used on Eupedia? I did not choose them randomly as explained here. It's especially confusing that you inverted the colors of R1a and R1b.

A new study published in The Economic Journal finds that smarter people really are more likely to help others—and the data behind that conclusion is staggering in scale. Economists Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson mined Swedish administrative registers covering roughly 1.2 million men and a...

That is not at all my observation in Belgium. I analysed about 50 people I know well among my friends and relatives (20+ cousins) between the age of 35 and 55 to see how many children each couple had. I chose this age range because it's increasingly common for people to have children in their...

Graph showing 85 different religious traditions sorted by percentage with a bachelor's degree and the mean reported household income. Top right (richest, most educated): Jews Hindus Episcopalians Atheists Presbyterians Bottom left (poorest, least educated): Free Will Baptist Church of God...