Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet but the aura of this year’s announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the pantheon, particularly in the sciences.
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Hospital rooms in 9 countries around the world reveal the global disparity in healthcare
REUTERS/Thomas Peter From the most high-tech infectious disease units in Berlin to ad-hoc vaccination clinics in rural Sierra Leone, there’s a huge disparity in the quality of healthcare around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 400 million people worldwide don’t have access to basic medical services like immunization, prenatal care, and […]
There is a huge disparity in how much the men’s and women’s golf major winners earn
On Sunday, Park Sung-hyun won the U.S. Women’s Open and took home $ 900,000, the biggest pay day of the five majors in women’s golf. The weekend, the winner of the men’s Open Championship will take home $ 1.85 million, the smallest pay day for a winner at one of the four men’s major championships. The […]
The massive health disparity between North and South Korea
The wildly differing trajectories of North and South Korea since they were divided at the end of World War II are well known. Slightly murkier are the very human statistics illustrating the differences between the two. The paranoically secretive nature of North Korea means that a wealth of data is difficult to come by, but […]
Here’s a map that shows the extreme disparity in population density across the world
REUTERS/Ajay Verma You may have heard that the majority of the world’s population actually lives within a relatively small circle that covers China, India, Japan, and other parts of Southeast Asia. That’s a pretty extreme example of population density – but here’s one that is even more impressive. It’s quite simple actually: it compares parts […]
