China Is Learning To Use Less Oil, And That's A Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

These Are The Highest-Paying College Majors College is one of the largest investments many people make, and a student’s field of study can shape its long-term financial return. Which Majors Earn the Most by Mid-Career? The chart below, via Visual Capitalist's Srijaa Chatterjee, ranks college majors by median mid-career wage. Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York compares median wages across dozens of college majors for workers ages 35 to 45. Engineering and technical disciplines dominate the upper end of the ranking. Alongside the three leading majors, electrical engineering pays a median of $123,000,...

Google's Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean Exits After 27 Years, Alphabet Shares Slide Alphabet shares slid after The Wall Street Journal reported that Jeff Dean, one of Google's earliest employees and a key figure in its AI strategy (co-founder of Google Brain), is departing after nearly three decades to launch his own AI company. The exit raises fresh concerns about Google's ability to retain top researchers as competition for AI experts intensifies.  Dean was Google's 30th employee in 1999 and will serve as CEO of Discovery Loop, a public-benefit corporation initially...

Wyoming Is America's Deadliest State For Workers Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld created the following map to show workplace fatality rates across all 50 states in 2024. Wyoming recorded the nation’s highest workplace fatality rate at 13.9 deaths per 100,000 workers, compared with just 1.1 in Rhode Island. Several Southern and Mountain West states also reported rates well above the national average of 3.3. The state-level divide highlights how workplace risk remains concentrated in specific industries and regions across the U.S. economy. Why Resource-Heavy States...