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Before the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, five states had "red flag" statutes called gun violence restraining orders. Recently, Florida became the six state to add the statute.
Culture
Researchers still struggle to get funding to study gun violence
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Counting Culture
Books
Arts
A journalist uses statistics to uncover authors’ ‘cinnamon words’
Swedish statistician Hans Rosling in 2015
Education
Hans Rosling, who turned statistics into performance art, dies at 68
Some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion is revealed in this undated handout colorized transmission electron micrograph.
Health
The current Ebola outbreak is huge, but at least it’s not spreading particularly quickly
Global Politics
U.S. Census releases digital versions of 1940 survey
Business, Economics and Jobs
Wealth gap between whites and minorities increases
Global Politics
How the midterms could change foreign policy
Conflict & Justice
Andean Nation Does The Numbers
Arts, Culture & Media
How Should We Judge our Economy?
Google versus Pollsters: Who’s Right?
What Our Google Habits Reveal About Our Voting Habits
First U.S. Census Digitized
Super Tuesday Exit Polls Hold Clues for General Election
A Closer Look at Italy’s Costa Concordia Crash
How Important Are Political Polls?
Arts, Culture & Media
Consumer confidence and the economy
As Heat Wave Hits U.S., Chicago Readies with 50-Year Forecast
Global Politics
Despite Privacy Concerns Germany Conducts Census
Another Flood Season
Polling the Environment
How Green Can the GNP Be?
Have a Heart
Have a Heart!
The Buddha is One…and Zeros
Almanac: Insect Thermometers
Business, Economics and Jobs
Listeners respond: household earnings
Business, Economics and Jobs
Census challenges for US while India begins the world’s biggest count
Global Politics
Takeouts: a confident fed maintains interest rates, Tiger is back
Global Politics
National census outreach picks up steam
Business, Economics and Jobs
Census Director Robert Groves on 2010 count
Conflict & Justice
Overturning demographic myths
Arts, Culture & Media
Pollster John Zogby speculates on the state of the American future
Global Politics
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