Index Archive | Harper's Magazine · Scour

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Average number of words per sentence in a book on the New York Times bestseller list in the 1930s

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To focus on written content

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Who think that AI will make it more important to focus on video content

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Percentage of Americans who say that making plans with friends feels like scheduling a work meeting

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Portion of U.S. obituaries published in 2019 that used at least one word connoting benevolence, such as “love” or “sympathy”

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Who believed that space travel would be common for ordinary Americans by then

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Of those published in 2024

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Portion of Americans in 1998 who believed that all cancers would be cured by 2025

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Who believed that humans would make contact with extraterrestrial life by then

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Percentage of Americans who, given the choice of living sometime in the past, present, or future, would choose the past

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Estimated chance that any person ever born is currently alive

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By which drivers of electric cars are more likely to experience road rage than those of gas-powered or hybrid cars

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Portion of Americans who say that if they could erase some personal memories, they probably or definitely would

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Percentage of Americans who have no unread emails in their inbox

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Percentage by which drivers are more likely to honk at a car if it has a bumper sticker with which they disagree

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Portion of Americans who have eaten something so spicy that they had to sign a waiver beforehand

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