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According to a new survey (PDF doc) sponsored by the nation’s leading curmudgeons, young people smoked weed less between 2013 and 2014 regardless of its raging popularity — or as the folks at the Marijuana Policy Project put it, “a period marked by heightened national debate regarding marijuana policy and implementation of the nation’s first […]
First, guess how many bars there are in the area of the Lower East Side and East Village bounded by 14th Street, Rivington Street, Avenue B, and the East River today. I’ll give you a minute. There are 74, according to the State Liquor Authority. Nothing to turn your nose up at, but a little […]
ANIMAL presents Stupid Calculations, a continuing series where practical statistics get rendered into utterly useless ones. Look forward to such topics as orange peels, whales, high-priced escorts, elevators, swimming pools, and tears of joy. Yahoo head honcho Marissa Mayer’s bought a shiny new toy. Or, as the case may be, a softcore porn-glazed one Yahoo’s […]
ANIMAL presents Stupid Calculations, a new series where practical statistics get rendered into utterly useless ones. Look forward to such topics as orange peels, whales, high-priced escorts, elevators, swimming pools, and tears of joy. Who among you haven’t wondered how many dried tears it would take to fill a salt shaker or how long it […]