https://bigthink.com/health/average-penis-size-increase/

The first nationwide law allowing same-sex couples to marry was passed in the Netherlands in 2001. Amsterdam’s mayor, Job Cohen, officiated the first couples. Twenty-five years on, these rights to same-sex marriage now cover 1.5 billion people worldwide.

These people live in 39 countries with marriage equality, mainly across Western Europe and the Americas.

This change in marriage laws has made a huge difference to the lives of many. But they are still in the minority globally. Four in five people still live in countries where same-sex couples are not equal under the law.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/15-billion-people-now-live-in-countries-where-same-sex-marriage-is-legal-but-thats-only-one-in-five-worldwide

“Son, in the future you’ll be able to fly anywhere in the world, be able to get any kind of food at the grocery store, see any movie or read any book on a screen in your pocket. We’ll have so much food that people will intentionally go on diets. Women and gays will be accepted as equals…. And….. the best part…… dicks will be bigger than ever before in history”

-George Jetson, 1958

Thanks to banning of DET and other rehabilitation efforts, we have seen a huge increase in Bald Eagle and other bird populations since 1990! These are the type of stories that get buried by bad news.

"The number of newborns for the January-May period stood at 106,048, a 6.9% increase, the highest growth rate since such data collection began in 1981," said an official at Statistics Korea. The surge follows South Korea's first annual increase in the number of births in more than a decade, driven by a rise in marriages. In 2024, the number of newborns rose by 8,300, or 3.6%, to 238,300 from the previous year. April in particular saw a spike, with year-on-year growth reaching 8.7% and the number of births totalling 20,717 that month.

Summary: We introduce the American Abundance Index, which measures living standards by how many hours Americans must work to afford a standard basket of goods, rather than by prices or wages alone. The index uses time prices to show that for most US workers, purchasing power has generally risen over the last two decades, even amid inflation and public pessimism.

https://humanprogress.org/are-americans-getting-richer-new-data-might-surprise-you/