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| Percentage of Americans who consider Canada a U.S. ally: 82, May 2025 |
| Percentage of Canadians who consider the United States a Canadian ally: 33, May 2025 |
| Portion of Americans who say that the United States should “take control of” Canada: 1/4, May 2025 |
| Portion of Canadians who say that California, Oregon, and Washington should “become part of” Canada: 1/3, May 2025 |
| Percentage increase this year in sales of the Canadian flag by Flags Unlimited, one of Canada’s largest flag manufacturers: 100, May 2025 |
| Average salary cut that a Democrat would take in order to have an employer with liberal views: $1,700, May 2025 |
| That a Republican would take in order not to have a liberal employer: $1,600, May 2025 |
| Percentage of Americans who said their sympathies lay more with Palestinians than with Israelis in 2013: 12, May 2025 |
| Now: 33, May 2025 |
| Estimated percentage of U.N. press releases that were generated by AI last year: 14, May 2025 |
| Of corporate press releases: 24, May 2025 |
| Average percentage by which customers rate more highly customer-service calls that use AI to “standardize” accents: 22, May 2025 |
| Estimated minimum amount generated by Cambodia’s scam industry last year: $12,500,000,000, May 2025 |
| Ratio of this amount to the country’s official GDP: 1:2, May 2025 |
| Minimum number of Fortune 100 CEOs who have frozen their sperm: 33, May 2025 |
| Estimated average cost, per milliliter, of commercially donated sperm: $6,000, May 2025 |
| Portion of men who report having at least seven orgasms per week: 1/4, May 2025 |
| Of women: 1/50, May 2025 |
| Percentage change in the portion of Americans who identified as Christian from 2007 to 2022: –23, May 2025 |
| From 2022 to today: +5, May 2025 |
| Percentage of Americans who pray who do so in a place of worship: 46, May 2025 |
| Who do so in their car: 61, May 2025 |
| Ratio of parking spots to cars in New York City: 3:2, May 2025 |
| Of bicycle parking spots to bicycles: 1:46, May 2025 |
| Percentage of apartment rentals in Brooklyn last year for which there was a bidding war: 27, May 2025 |
| Chance that an American changed addresses in any given year in the 1960s: 1 in 5, May 2025 |
| In 2023: 1 in 8, May 2025 |
| Rank of Florida among the states that Americans say they would most like to move to: 1, May 2025 |
| Rank of California: 2, May 2025 |
| Percentage of buildings in California constructed in the 1920s that are in high-risk fire areas today: 28, May 2025 |
| Of those constructed since 2020: 80, May 2025 |
| Portion of the contiguous United States in which mosquito season is longer now than it was in 1979: 3/4, May 2025 |
| Average number of days by which mosquito season is now longer in these areas: 17, May 2025 |
| Factor by which the number of days that American schools are closed because of extreme heat has increased since 2019: 2, May 2025 |
| Percentage change since 2000 in the portion of U.S. kindergarten and preschool teachers who are men: +129, May 2025 |
| In the portion of U.S. registered nurses who are men: +83, May 2025 |
| Chance that an American believes they have a penicillin allergy: 1 in 10, May 2025 |
| Maximum chance that an American does have a penicillin allergy: 1 in 100, May 2025 |
| Portion of Americans with chronic kidney disease who are unaware of it: 9/10, May 2025 |
| Percentage of Americans aged 25 to 34 who consider themselves middle-aged: 21, May 2025 |
May 13, 2025
It was reported that ravioli had been banned from being served to the College of Cardinals for fear that the stuffed pasta might contain secret messages, an MIT professor calculated a 90 percent probability that advanced artificial intelligence would someday pose an existential threat to humanity, and an 8-year-old boy in Kentucky ordered 70,000 Dum-Dums with his mother’s phone.
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| Voice Figure, c. 1885-1904, an image of sound created with paint on glass, by Margaret Watts Hughes, from her book Sound May Be Seen, which was published last month by The Further Reading Library | Christine Burgin Books. |
| “Street Protests During the DNC, Chicago, Illinois, 2024,” by Kris Graves. This image is part of the two-book set entitled RNC/DNC published last year by KGP MONOLITH. |
| Between You and Me, a painting by Bárbara Alegre, whose work is on view with Dohing Art at NADA New York. Courtesy the artist and Dohing Art, Seoul |
| “Sick Hagemeyer shop assistant as a seventies icon posing in front of the United Trading Company headquarters, Accra, 1971,” a photograph by James Barnor, whose work is on view with Galerie Clémentine de la Feronnière at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. |
| The Lonely Rowan, a painting (inkwash on paper mounted on hand-painted watercolor paper) by Gunnel Wåhlstrand, whose work is on view with Andréhn-Schiptjenko at the Independent Art Fair. |
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