2026-01-09 20:05:54
Riffing on the photo-everyday genre, Henry Brown recorded a clip of himself saying a single word every day for a year. Stringing the clips together comes an essay on the perception of time, in the context of a year.
2026-01-09 16:25:22
When generic drug manufacturers have issues like contamination, it is difficult for those who take the medications to know if they are affected. There is no standardized way to look up the data for where the pills in your bottle came from. ProPublica made an app that makes the lookup more straightforward.
Even though generic drugs make up 90% of prescriptions dispensed in the U.S., the FDA only provides piecemeal information about them. It’s scattered across different websites with no easy way to link drugs to their manufacturers, factory locations and regulatory track records. Over many months, our journalists connected that data. In one case, ProPublica had to sue the FDA in federal court and received a partial list of factory locations.
You can use this app to connect your own medication to the manufacturer that made it, to the specific factory where it was made and to any FDA inspection reports and serious compliance violations linked to that facility that ProPublica has obtained.
Tags: drugs, generic, prescription, ProPublica
2026-01-08 22:20:20
With more choices for a quick bite, the market share for pizza in the United States has taken a hit over the past few years. Heather Haddon for the Wall Street Journal:
Americans still eat a lot of pizza. Pizza chains generated around $31 billion in sales from their restaurants in 2024, the market-research firm Technomic said. On any given day, around one in 10 Americans will partake of a slice, according to the Agriculture Department. Young people drive much of the consumption.
Pizza’s dominance in American restaurant fare is declining, however. Among different cuisines, it ranked sixth in terms of U.S. sales in 2024 among restaurant chains, down from second place during the 1990s, Technomic said.
Remember when the only delivery option was pizza?
Tags: pizza, Wall Street Journal
2026-01-08 22:06:20
Every month, I collect tools and resources to make better charts. Last month, Christmas fell on Thursday, so here is the monthly roundup for December in January. As always, find previous roundups on FlowingData.
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2026-01-07 17:38:45
NeatoCal is a JavaScript-based calendar implementation that you can print on a single page. Play with the code or use the live demo with parameters for various encodings and layouts. Then print the one-pager from your browser. Plan your entire year. Done.
Tags: calendar, JavaScript, print
2026-01-06 16:46:29
To highlight challenges in other countries, Giving What We Can imagined a birth lottery to see how you might start life from birth. Spin the globe and see how the country you land on compares against your own in terms of life expectancy, income, and education.
The metrics, sourced from Our World in Data, feed into the Human Development Index, which is used to estimate if the starting point in one country is more difficult than that of another.
Tags: average, comparison, Giving What We Can, lottery, world
