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The article discusses rising costs for treatment at emergency rooms and hospitals in the U.S. as of December 2, 2013. Topics addressed include patients' surprise at the high costs of receiving sutures (stitches) at the California Pacific Medical Center emergency room, a lack of constraints on hospitals' pricing of medical supplies and services and the role of emergency rooms in generating profit for hospitals, and the impact of hospital mergers on medical costs.

The article reports on U.S. municipal governments' effort to create public utilities as of March 14, 2013, including of the Boulder, Colorado government's efforts. The role that climate change played in the municipal governments' decision develop utilities, including as a result of the response from private utilities to electric grid infrastructure damage caused by putatively climate change related storms, is discussed.

The article reports on the chances in winning the grand prize of the Powerball lottery and mentions the redesign made by the Multi-State Lottery Association to the Powerball lottery in generation larger average jackpots and ticket sales.

The article discusses the U.S. court case wherein automobile firm Volkswagen AG was sued by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency for installing defeat devices on its cars to pass emission tests, violating the country's emission standards.

The article examines the increase in the number of deaths during the winter holiday season in the U.S. as of January 2016 which affects all age and disease groups, dealing with topics including the possible causes of the trend such as winter travel and stress.

The article focuses on the result of the study "An Economic Framework of Microbial Trade," by biologist Harris H. Wang and economist Joshua Tasoff which reveals the interaction in the microbial communities.

The article offers information on the records system Universal Control Number introduced by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to keep records of civil background checks and criminal histories in one database and mentions views of mathematician Joseph Kirtland on the same.

The article focuses on the increase of an average weight of commercial turkey due to artificial insemination, with topics including the turkey breeding, the insights of said Keith Williams, spokesman of the National Turkey Federation, on the turkey supply, and the disadvantage of oversize turkey.

The article focuses on the move of the federal government in the U.S. to map the state of Alaska which is aimed at correcting the errors and confusion related to inaccurate maps.

The article reports the successful and accurate measurement by four mountaineers of the elevation of Mount Denali, formerly Mount McKinley, in Alaska as of November 2015. The mountaineers used Global Positioning coordinates determined via satellites to measure the height of the mountain. The project was financed by the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Geodetic Survey.

The article reports on the electrical network blackout in Queens, New York, which had the most failures of any of the underground networks in New York City in the previous two years. Astoria, Woodside, Sunnyside and Long Island City were all affected when underground feeder cables malfunctioned. Consolidated Edison Company has restored power in the blackout areas.

The article reports on the proposed formula by traffic engineers in the U.S. to determine the appropriate interval between green and red signals based on vehicle speed, driver's perception and reaction time, and rate of deceleration.

The article reports on the things which must be considered when waiting for the response in an email including the differences in the response time, the identification of email response pattern, and the device used to reply.

The article focuses on the dilemma associated with estimating crowd size during a gateless event like the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March held in Washington, D.C., in which common techniques to come up with a crowd estimate are also explored.

The article focuses on a study of 5 million tickets in the Dutch Lotto by researchers in the Netherlands and the Great Britain as of 2015 which found that players often picked numbers that had personal meaning, formed patterns, leaving an unexpectedly uneven distribution.

The article discusses the challenge of predicting the number of hurricanes months which require forecasters to assess critical weather patterns, focusing on the seasonal hurricane forecasts released by the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the models used.

The article focuses on the fear index also known as the VIX volatility index developed by Vanderbilt University's finance professor Robert E. Whaley.

The article discusses the increasing number of children of illegal immigrants in the U.S. as of September 2015, which is the focus of some campaigns by several 2016 presidential candidates such as Donald Trump.

The article focuses on social jet lag, the misalignment of the circadian and social clock that negatively affects one's biological clock.

The article reports on data from the U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) which show that 133 billion pounds of food was wasted at the retail and consumer levels in 2010.

The article discusses the World Happiness Report, co-authored by economics professor John Helliwell, which shows that the richest countries are not necessarily the happiest based on metrics such as gross domestic product (GDP), life expectancy, and freedom.

In the article, the author discusses the odds of a disaster happening in the U.S., citing as examples the swimmers who were attacked by sharks in North Carolina and cases of plane crashes.

The article discusses the percentage of Americans who have a police record and mentions topics including a study about youths who have been taken into police custody due to non-traffic offense and human rights groups' call for the removal of criminal history-related questions in job applications.

The article informs that the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis will report data this week on the total value of final goods and services produced in the U.S. in a given time, called Gross domestic product (GDP).

The article discusses a research which showed that Jennifer is the most common girl name in the U.S., referencing a study of cultural evolution by Sapienza University theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi and colleagues, published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

The article discusses research by Northwestern University dermatologists which showed that less than half of the number of respondents surveyed could understand the sunscreen label, published in the June 2015 issue of the journal "JAMA Dermatology."

The article discusses the adverse effects of using maple baseball bats in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the U.S. as of June 2015, particularly the risks of broken bats to spectators, players, officials and coaches.

The article focuses on the drought in California in 2015 and on estimates of water required to produce foods grown there.

The article discusses research which tallied the number of winter manatee population in Florida, published in the June 2015 issue of the journal "Biological Conservation."

The article reports on a study conducted by Dartmouth professors which focuses on social network bias, wherein individuals who are more outgoing and popular are usually favored when it comes to hiring and leadership selection, creating the risk of hiring people who are less competent.

The author comments on the difficulty of examining uninsured rates following the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to revise the methodology for its Current Population Survey to correct the overestimation of the number of people without health insurance.

The article examines the retail sales data issued by the U.S. Commerce Department, which showed that the spending of Americans on dining out is higher than buying groceries in the first quarter of 2015.

The article explains the mathematical pattern that can predicts neuron's response to exposures to smell.

The article discusses test-preparatory companies Princeton Review and Kaplan's tips to boost scores for the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) including understanding the mechanics of the test and answering only a portion of the questions in a section. INSET: This is Only a Test..

The author explains why the quarterly earnings reports of publicly traded companies vary including street earnings as the best indicator of a company's future growth to street analysts and data providers.

The article reports that the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has launched a program to gather data about concussion in student athletes.

The article compares the popularity of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) in the U.S. in terms of average-per-game attendance, overall attendance by season, and league revenue.

The article discusses the dollar coin problem of the U.S. Federal Reserve that comes after the U.S. Congress and Americans opposed changing the dollar bill, in which benefits associated with circulating a dollar coin and practices of other countries are explored.

The article discusses the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index as the U.S. Federal Reserve's preferred inflation indicator. Topics discussed include the consumer-price index (CPI) as a measure of the average prices paid by consumers for goods and services, a comparison between PCE and CPI and the PCE derived from retail-sales data collected in business surveys.

The article explores how demographers count unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. and mentions topics including the residual technique wherein it is assumed that all foreign-born residents who entered the country before 1980 or 1981 are authorized, and the monitoring of immigrants who left the U.S.

The article focuses on fitness activity trackers like electronic wristband that help, presents views of Matthew P. Buman of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona on the issue, and mentions a study conducted by Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa to test accuracy of activity trackers.

The article explores the reasons behind the low gasoline prices in the U.S., with the national average price at 2.23 dollars a gallon on January 1, 2015.

The article presents a study which showed that growth standards around the world as of December 2014 should be based on the offspring of healthy mothers rather than a statistical number of children taken in a particular place and time.

The article focuses on the use of a test, called the Benford's Law, to check the validity of payments, by audit firm KPMG of call centers, and mentions the promotion of the importance of analytical capabilities in auditing by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

The article discusses the economists' claim that Black Friday sales are not a reliable tool for predicting holiday sales.