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Significant Digits For Thursday, March 12, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, subscribe. 5 percent Percentage of U.S. adults who claim to be vegetarians in a Gallup poll. According to a “vegetarian calculator” — which seems like it might be arguing from a particular stance, […]

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Significant Digits For Thursday, March 12, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, subscribe. 5 percent Percentage of U.S. adults who claim to be vegetarians in a Gallup poll. According to a “vegetarian calculator” — which seems like it might be arguing from a particular stance, […]

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Significant Digits For Monday, Feb. 2, 2015

You’re reading the special Super Bowl edition of Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, subscribe. 4 cents per viewer With an estimated cost of $4.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl advertisement and more than 112 million people projected to watch […]

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Significant Digits For Monday, Feb. 2, 2015

You’re reading the special Super Bowl edition of Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, subscribe. 4 cents per viewer With an estimated cost of $4.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl advertisement and more than 112 million people projected to watch […]

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Significant Digits For Friday, Jan. 30, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, subscribe. 9 communications majors It shouldn’t come as too much of a shock that the notoriously taciturn Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch is not among the nine communications majors taking the field in […]

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