The Page That Counts: Fall 2012
Photo by Graeme Pow
Estimated cost of the 2012 London Olympics: $14.1 billion [1]
Estimated cost of the 2004 Athens Olympics: $1.6 billion
Actual cost of the 2004 Athens Olympics: $16 billion [2]
Number of buildings built for the Athens Olympics: 22
Number of those buildings still in use: 1 [3]
Number of times New York City police stopped and frisked black and Latino kids ages 14-18 in 2011: 120,000
Population of black and Latino boys ages 14-18 in New York City: 177,000 [4]
Particle collisions analyzed in experiments to find Higgs boson particle: 500 trillion [5]
Weight of newly discovered suspected Higgs boson particle in gigaelectronvolts: 125.3
Amount of matter in the universe that would have mass without the Higgs boson: 0 [6]
Percentage of articles in The New Yorker with a woman’s byline in 2011: 26.447
Percentage of women graduates from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2012: 608
Calories in one large baked potato: 278 [9]
Calories in that same potato made into chips: 360 [10]
Number of pounds lost in one year by cutting 100 calories a day: 5 [11]
Percentage of potato crop consumed by Americans in processed forms: 72 [12]
Percentage of Americans who believed that news is often influenced by powerful people and organizations, 1985: 53
Percentage of Americans who believed that news is often influenced by powerful people and organizations, 2011: 80 [13]
Number of companies controlling 90 percent of the media, 1983: 50
Number of companies controlling 90 percent of the media, 2011: 6 [14]
Average cost of an individual health insurance policy in the U.S. in 2011: $5,429 [15]
Amount spent in the U.S. on cosmetic procedures in 2011: $10 billion [16]
Length of time, in years, of video uploaded to YouTube every day: 8
Number of users who visit YouTube each month: 800 million
Number of page views YouTube receives each year: 1 trillion [17]
Weight difference, in pounds, between frequent chocolate eaters (who weigh less) and infrequent chocolate eaters: 5-7 [18]