The original Coca-Cola bottle was patented 100 years ago this week, marking the beginning of a century of innovations on the packaging around the iconic beverage. The following interactive displays 100 of the company’s interesting and sometimes downright wacky variations that the bottling giant has patented since 1976, the earliest date when the U.S. Patent […]
TIME examined five years of Census data on those with Bachelor’s degrees, accounting for both their field of study and whether they are listed as living with at least one parent.
In the latest analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association of a massive amount of government-collected health data from 1969 to 2013, there’s good news. The death rate among Americans, at any given age, from all causes decreased by 43% from 1969 to 2013. In fact, of the six leading causes of […]
A TIME analysis of Federal Election Commission records indicates that, while donors to Barack Obama in 2012 have largely transferred their support to Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney’s donors are divided in their support of the 2016 hopefuls.
Want to find an open treadmill? Better head to Virginia. In Fairfax City, Virginia, located outside of Washington, D.C., there are more than ten times the numbers of gyms per capita than the national average, making it the number-one gym destination in the country. Two other Virginia counties – Falls Church and Williamsburg – also fall in […]
Mixed-race marriages are growing at rapid rates, according to a TIME analysis of Census data. This interactive chart shows marriage rates for any combination of race or ethnicity and gender of each spouse.
The recent shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, which claimed 10 lives in one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings in recent years, has brought new scrutiny to the ease with which anyone can purchase a gun in America. Authorities say that the 26-year-old gunman Christopher Harper-Mercer purchased the 14 weapons he owned legally. This […]
While male actors see their careers peak at the age of 46, female actors reach their professional pinnacles at age 30, according to a TIME analysis of the careers of over 6,000 actors and actresses.
As politicians, pundits and popes are fond of reminding us, there is a large disparity in the distribution of wealth in the United States. What they don’t mention is that there is also a geographic one.
I’ve seen the Phillies face Stephen Strasburg in Washington twice this season. The first time, on July 19, the fireballer retired the first 14 batters he faced. The second time, this past Saturday, he retired the first 12. This says as much about the poor Phillies as it does about Strasburg, but it got me wondering how long a pitcher has […]
Though Francis became the first pope to address the U.S. Congress Thursday, he’s the fourth to make a papal visit to the U.S. Fifty years ago in 1965, Paul VI first flew to the states, followed by John Paul II’s seven trips from 1979 to 1999, and Benedict XVI’s only trip in 2008. Click on […]
Over the past 115 years, the global Catholic population has more than quadrupled, from 266 million in 1900 to 1.2 billion in 2015.
Autumn may officially behind on September 22 or 23, but it often feels like the weather takes a few weeks to get the memo. See when fall arrives in your neighborhood.
The raucous second debate among the top 11 GOP hopefuls kept some candidates on message and drove others on tangents destined for cable news reels. Below is the word that most identifies each candidate’s entire discourse over the course of the night, using established methods for determining which words are most meaningful among a sea […]
We can find one clue to the tangled GOP primary allegiances in which candidates a person follows on Twitter. TIME Labs examined the 6.2 million people who follow at least one of the 16 candidates and looked at the overlaps for anyone who followed more than one.
School’s back in session and for U.S. business schools, many eager to advertise their worldliness, that means welcoming droves of students who don’t call America home. Stanford Graduate School of Business boasts a recent class that is 42 percent foreign. Harvard Business School’s Class of 2014 was 34 percent international. More than one out of three […]
In his proposal for stricter security at the U.S-Mexico border, Donald Trump seized on an issue that could make him very unpopular among immigrants: remittances. Remittance payments—money that immigrants send back to their home countries—are one of the latest targets for Trump, who proposed that unless Mexico funds a wall at its northern border, the U.S. […]
Jonathan Franzen’s fifth novel, Purity, which published last week, came as no surprise to fans of the author’s elephantine narratives. “Magisterial sweep is now just what Franzen does,”Radhika Jones wrote in TIME’s review. Close readers might also notice that Franzen goes back and back to the well of a few dozen signature words. His novels […]
The Army permanently opened Ranger School to all women this month, just weeks after two female soldiers graduated from the school for the first time. That decision is part of a series of efforts that will expand where and how women serve in the U.S. armed forces. On Jan. 1, 2016, with the repeal of […]
For all the talk of American exceptionalism, there is at least one thing that is unexceptional about the United States: it’s flag. The Star-Spangled Banner’s particular shade of red shows up in 14.3 percent of all national flags, making it the second most common color after white. And the dark blue of the American flag’s canton is also shared by 13 other nations.
Millions of students return to campus this week preparing for another year of late nights studying and early-morning classes (or just late nights and no studying). Who’s struggling the most to stay awake? Online food delivery company GrubHub, which now serves more than 20 million meals each quarter, analyzed delivery orders sent to more than […]
You are, they say, what you eat. So as approximately 20 million students head back to college this fall, we got to wondering just what they will be eating. The truth may lie somewhere at the bottom of America’s takeout orders. Online food delivery company GrubHub, which now serves more than 20 million meals each […]
Trader Joe’s just might be a surer sign of gentrification than Whole Foods, according to nationwide retail data supplied by research company AggData. The median income of households in counties with Trader Joe’s is $62,600–just barely beating that of counties with Whole Foods, but far higher than the 2013 U.S. median income of $52,250. TIME ranked 2,996 chains by […]
It’s a common refrain among the single: There just aren’t enough available men or women in this city. In many cases, it’s true.
Do you drink wine like a Frenchman or down milk like a Swede? Use the sliders below to see which country matches your drinking preferences for five different kinds of beverages, according to two studies that measured drinking behavior, country by country, across the globe.
TIME looked at the frequency of each word in last night’s debate and 11 debates from the 2012 presidential cycle to identify words that each candidate used much more frequently than other GOP candidates past and present.
Few candidates arriving at tonight’s GOP debate have the option of doing so in their very own Boeing 757. But then again there are few candidates like Donald Trump. According to data provided by the Federal Aviation Administration via a Freedom of Information request, Trump’s two planes—the 757 and his Cessna Citation X—have flown a total […]
Surprise, it’s not Star Wars. According to analysis of percent increase in sales over the original feature, the most successful second act in Hollywood since 1960 is The Boondock Saints II (2009), which grossed 300 times more than the first Boondock Saints (1999) when adjusted for inflation. Check out the charts below to see most […]
In the five weeks since Trump has gone from citizen billionaire business mogul to a leading Republican presidential candidate, the press has done him a favor by recording his boasts, bluster and diatribes with interest.
Florida today very closely resembles where the nation is expected to be in 2029. Meanwhile, Connecticut is frozen in the demographic amber of 2001 and neighboring Massachusetts looks like the America of 1993. Where does your state fall?
Today TIME Labs is releasing both the code to extract congressional election data and the data files themselves.
Online food delivery company GrubHub analyzed millions of meal orders taken in 2014 by Americans in more than 900 American cities and provided the data to TIME, revealing new insights into how Americans covet their burgers.
Americans may not be so bleary-eyed after all. According to Withings, a maker of health tracking devices, Americans are falling asleep these days at 11:32PM and waking up at 7:22AM—nearly a solid eight hours. Not all states are equal when it comes to getting rest. New York, home to the city that never sleeps, does […]
Today we are thrilled to introduce you to a new site called TIME Labs, the home base for interactive data journalism at TIME. We have gathered the best of our existing stories and added some new ones, and we’ll be continually updating the site with new projects and posts.
See which name had the same popularity in the past year and every decade since 1890 as yours did the year you were born, using newly released baby name data for 2014.
Chipotle announced Monday that the chain will no longer serve food containing genetically modified organisms (GMO), raising the bar for transparency in the United States, where there’s no requirement to indicate the presence of GMO ingredients on food labels or in restaurants. Likewise, biotechnology companies aren’t required to report which genetically modified seeds are used […]
With April 20, the unofficial holiday celebrating marijuana upon us, here’s a look at the drastically changing American legal landscape for pot users. Data provided by the Marijuana Policy Project and the National Conference of State Legislatures shows just how much of the country’s laws have altered since California legalized medical marijuana in 1996. […]
The vast majority of new HIV infections are transmitted by people who are not receiving care for their condition, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that of the 1.1 million people with HIV in 2009, 700,000 were not receiving care, […]
As Saturday Night Live celebrates its 40th season this month, here’s a way to find when every character, actor, sketch and guest appeared on the show, based on the meticulous archives compiled by SNL superfan Joel Navaroli. Search for your favorites, and click on episodes outlined in grey to watch sketches for that date. Need […]
Enter your dating preferences and find out which cities have the highest percentage of people who match them.
The following chart places 49 common brands on a political spectrum based on the percentage of their brick-and-mortar stores that are located in Democratic or Republican districts.
Blaming a third-party candidate for losing an election is like blaming Bill Buckner for spoiling the 1986 World Series for the Boston Red Sox: It is merely the most visible excuse for a loss that could have been reversed if one of a thousand factors had gone just a little better.
Napa Valley gets struck by the largest earthquake in 25 years. Hurricanes churn through the Atlantic. Floods claim four lives as they sweep through parts of the Northeast. Every region in America faces its own dangers (those three are just from August), but when you account for all kinds of natural disasters–from earthquakes to winter […]
The tool above, developed with Chris Franck, an assistant research professor in statistics at Virginia Tech, predicts how a name will rise or fall in the next 25 years by examining the performance of earlier names that followed similar patterns of popularity.
In the following interactive, we put together 12 questions that have a statistical correlation to a person’s political leanings, even if the questions themselves are seemingly apolitical. At the end of this (completely anonymous) quiz, we’ll use your responses to guess your politics.
Every comet that’s ever been spotted is a fugitive on the lam. Comets really have no business visiting the inner solar system at all. They don’t remotely respect the orderly wheels of the orbiting planets — coming in at crazy inclinations and extended ellipses, colliding with any world that gets in their way and sometimes […]
For a country that features the word United so prominently in its name, the U.S. is a pretty fractious place. We splinter along fault lines of income, education, religion, race, hyphenated origin, age and politics. Then too there’s temperament. We’re coarse or courtly, traditionalist or rebel, amped up or laid-back. And it’s no secret that a lot of that seems to be determined by — or at least associated with — where we live.
