You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 4 percent There were 1,223 directors on 1,100 films released from 2007 to 2017. Women accounted for only 4 percent of them. Only 5.2 percent of the directors were African-American. [Annenberg Inclusion Initiative] 7 stores Macy’s announced it will shut down […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 0.34 percent A weird star — Tabby’s Star — was thought to have some dimming patterns that could have been evidence of extraterrestrial infrastructure … but which astronomers now say is probably just cosmic dust. Tabby’s Star, made public in 2015, […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $349 In the final two months of 2017, the price of the cryptocurrency monero quadrupled in value to $349, and is up a further 7 percent this year. It grew faster than the top cryptocurrency, bitcoin, which is saying something. Criminals […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2.5 percent The 2017 box office will have netted somewhere in the ballpark of $11.1 billion, about 2.5 percent below the amount for a record-setting 2016. Several promising titles based on brand names or existing intellectual property flopped last year — […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Heads up: Per tradition, we’re taking off the week between Christmas and New Years. Happy Holidays! 5 trademarks Vince McMahon has sold $100 million worth of WWE stock to fund a company called Alpha Entertainment LLC. Alpha Entertainment, meanwhile, recently filed […]