{"generated_from": "the publications index, the topics index, the insights records and each page's own exhibit heads", "counts": {"publications": 45, "findings": 105, "exhibits": 117}, "docs": [{"t": "AI economics data hub", "u": "/data/ai-economics", "k": "Data hub", "d": "The AI economy, receipted — the tracked cuts ledger beside filed capital, small on purpose: no event enters without a receipt, and the review queue is public.", "tell": "The tracked ledger as a timeline — sized by headcount, colored and filterable by receipt class", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["SEC EDGAR"], "x": [], "f": []}, {"t": "Aviation safety data hub", "u": "/data/aircraft-investigation", "k": "Catalog", "d": "Every aviation accident investigation the NTSB has opened since 2000 — 30,968 events, each carrying its year, injury class, state, aircraft make, fatality count, and the docket number that opens the investigation itself. 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Everyone has heard the story — this report draws it as a network, with a receipt class on every edge. And the first honest finding is abou", "tell": "0 of 21 edges trace to a filing", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": [], "x": ["A1 · The AI money loop — a curated network, receipt class on every edge", "B1 · Edges by receipt class — count and stated dollars", "C1 · Stated dollars out and in, per company — valued edges only", "D1 · The complete edge ledger — edition 1"], "f": []}, {"t": "Clinical trials", "u": "/demo/clinical-trials", "k": "Exhibit page", "d": "", "tell": "", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-26", "a": ["ClinicalTrials.gov"], "x": [], "f": []}, {"t": "The Data Center Decade", "u": "/demo/data-center-decade", "k": "Report", "d": "Five companies are building the physical layer of the AI era, and unlike almost every other number in this story, their spending is filed. This report reads the capital-expenditure line of Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia strai", "tell": "$69B → $361B filed capex, 5.2× (FY2019→FY2025)", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["SEC EDGAR"], "x": ["A1 · Filed capex per fiscal year — absolute or indexed to each company’s first filed year", "B1 · Combined builder capex, year over year — dollars or percent", "C1 · Filed FY2025 actuals beside announced multi-year ceilings — one scale, two species", "D1 · The filed capex ledger — edition 1", "E1 The pipeline — from filing to this page"], "f": ["The climb is filed, not claimed.", "Fiscal 2023 was the dip before the sprint.", "Three announcements outweigh the biggest filed year.", "The supplier spends least and catches most."]}, {"t": "Exoplanets", "u": "/demo/exoplanets", "k": "Exhibit page", "d": "", "tell": "", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-26", "a": ["NASA", "Exoplanet Archive"], "x": [], "f": []}, {"t": "Faster than Moore", "u": "/demo/faster-than-moore", "k": "Report", "d": "For fifty years, Moore's law was the fastest sustained exponential in the industrial record: transistors per chip doubled every 24 months, from 2,308 in 1971 to 58 billion. AI training compute tracked that same slope for six decades — and t", "tell": "In 2010, AI left Moore's law.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["OWID", "Epoch AI"], "x": ["A1 · Training compute per model, 1950–2026 — with Moore's law drawn from the transistor record", "B1 · The twelve largest training runs on record — log scale", "C1 · Models at 10²⁵ FLOP and above — by organization, colored by country", "D1 · Transistors per microprocessor, 1971–2021 — the fifty-year line"], "f": ["In 2010, AI left Moore's law.", "The frontier is 5×10²⁶.", "The 10²⁵ club has 22 members — in a handful of hands.", "Moore's law itself never bent."]}, {"t": "The Fatal Margin", "u": "/demo/fatal-margin", "k": "Report", "d": "Since 2008 the NTSB has opened 30,968 aviation investigations, and this report reads every one of them. The headline is not the crashes — it is the margin: in 51% of investigated accidents, nobody was hurt at all — no injury of any class re", "tell": "The survived majority is the story.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["NTSB"], "x": ["A1 · Investigations per year, stacked by highest injury class", "B1 · Outcome composition, whole record — and the fatal fraction, year by year", "B2 · The margin pyramid — walked-away left, fatal right, year by year", "C1 · The twenty busiest states, stacked by outcome class", "D1 · The fifteen most-investigated makes — events and fatal share", "E1 Highest-fatality events — edition 1"], "f": ["The survived majority is the story.", "The record is shrinking.", "Geography is exposure.", "The deadliest events are the record’s rarest."]}, {"t": "Fifty Years of Big Shocks", "u": "/demo/fifty-years-of-shocks", "k": "Report", "d": "Since 1976 the global catalog records 222 earthquakes at magnitude 7.5 or greater. Half a century of the planet’s violence reduces to a brutal concentration: just 6 shocks — the magnitude-8.5-plus giants — released 53% of all the energy in ", "tell": "Six shocks are half the energy.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["USGS"], "x": ["A1 · M7.5+ events, 1976–present — magnitude or energy scale", "B1 · Events and energy per decade — the pair that disagrees", "C1 · Fifty years of giants at true coordinates — M8.5+ ringed and named", "D1 · The M8+ ledger — edition 1"], "f": ["Six shocks are half the energy.", "Two nines bracket the era.", "The giants all live on subduction zones.", "The era’s newest giant is months old."]}, {"t": "Capital spend & filings", "u": "/demo/filings", "k": "Exhibit page", "d": "", "tell": "", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-26", "a": ["SEC EDGAR"], "x": [], "f": []}, {"t": "The Grid Under Load", "u": "/demo/grid-under-load", "k": "Report", "d": "Every hour of the last thirteen months, the American grid reported what it was carrying — and this summer it carried more than at any other point in those thirteen months. This report reads the government's own hourly demand record: the nat", "tell": "13 regions by daily peak · 2 of them and the national aggregate hour by hour — a national peak hour of 761,177 MWh", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["EIA"], "x": ["A1 · US48 demand — 396 days × 24 hours, every cell an hour", "B1 · Daily peaks, region by region — small multiples", "B2 · The data-center states vs the rest — indexed to last summer"], "f": ["The window’s record hour landed this summer.", "A continent breathes in unison.", "Texas is a nation-scale grid on its own.", "Texas grows ahead — and the mid-Atlantic quietly defies the narrative."]}, {"t": "One Day of the Sun", "u": "/demo/one-day-of-the-sun", "k": "Report", "d": "The star that powers every grid on this site can also switch them off, and the United States keeps live instruments pointed at it around the clock. This page reads them the moment you open it: the X-ray flux from the GOES satellites, the pl", "tell": "The longest measurement humanity keeps.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": [], "x": ["A1 · The live panel — flux, pulse, and NOAA's scales, fetched at load", "B1 · Monthly sunspot number, 1749  this month — the current cycle in color"], "f": ["The longest measurement humanity keeps.", "The Sun has seasons, and we are in one.", "Grid weather is real weather."]}, {"t": "The Other Earths", "u": "/demo/other-earths", "k": "Report", "d": "Humanity has confirmed 6,354 planets around other stars, and this report reads the whole catalog. The shape of what we know is really the shape of how we looked: one spacecraft’s program found 53% of everything ever discovered, one detectio", "tell": "One spacecraft found half of everything.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["NASA", "Exoplanet Archive"], "x": ["A1 · Discoveries per year, stacked by method", "B1 · Period × radius, log–log — color is discovery method", "C1 · Confirmed planets by discovery facility — the top ten", "D1 · The nearest hundred — edition 1"], "f": ["One spacecraft found half of everything.", "The record has eras, and they are instruments.", "The field’s gaps are limits, not absences.", "The story started before its famous beginning."]}, {"t": "The Paper Trail", "u": "/demo/paper-trail", "k": "Report", "d": "Every public company leaves a trail at the SEC, and this report reads the five AI giants’ most recent 5,004 filings as a single stream. The surprise is what the trail is made of: 82% of it is insider-trading paperwork — executives’ Forms 4 ", "tell": "The trail is mostly insiders.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["SEC EDGAR"], "x": ["A1 · Filings per quarter, stacked areas by form family — window entries marked", "B1 · Each company’s ~1,000-filing window on one timeline — span = speed", "C1 · Form-family share per company — 100% columns", "D1 · The thirty largest by size — edition 1"], "f": ["The trail is mostly insiders.", "The famous filings are a sliver.", "Filing velocity varies three-fold.", "The heaviest paper is the annual report."]}, {"t": "The Phase-Three Gate", "u": "/demo/phase-three-gate", "k": "Report", "d": "Phase three is where medicine gets expensive: the last trial before a treatment reaches the world. This report reads a window of 1,000 completed phase-3 trials (987 of them carry complete rows into the data hub’s explorer — the missing thir", "tell": "The gate is smaller than its reputation.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["ClinicalTrials.gov"], "x": ["A1 · Enrollment × start year, log scale — the mega-trials in amber", "B1 · The fifteen most frequent sponsors — trials and median enrollment", "C1 · The twenty most-trialed conditions", "D1 · The thirty largest by enrollment — edition 1"], "f": ["The gate is smaller than its reputation.", "The top ten trials carry 31% of all enrollment.", "Fifteen names run 20% of the gate.", "The money map is chronic disease."]}, {"t": "Seismic", "u": "/demo/seismic", "k": "Exhibit page", "d": "", "tell": "", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-26", "a": ["USGS"], "x": [], "f": []}, {"t": "The Arsenal", "u": "/demo/the-arsenal", "k": "Report", "d": "For eighty years humanity has counted its own nuclear stockpile, and the count tells a story with a shape: a climb to 70,374 warheads in 1986, a long fall to 12,187 today — and, in the newest years of the record, the fall has stopped. This ", "tell": "The fall has stopped.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": ["OWID"], "x": ["A1 · Nuclear warheads by state, 1945–2026 — with the treaty dates on the axis", "B1 · Nuclear tests per year, 1945–2024 — stacked by state", "C1 · Stockpiles today, ranked — with the walk-away drawn at its true value"], "f": ["The fall has stopped.", "1962: one detonation every other day.", "Exactly one state has ever walked away."]}, {"t": "The Debt Ledger", "u": "/demo/the-debt-ledger", "k": "Report", "d": "The United States has kept a public ledger of what it owes since 1790, when the number was $71 million. On August 18, 2026 the same ledger crossed $40 trillion — and it is written down to the penny, every business day, by the Treasury itsel", "tell": "The fortieth trillion took 154 days.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["U.S. Treasury"], "x": ["A1 · The trillion ladder — each rung dated, each width a duration", "B1 · Debt outstanding, 1790–2026 — log scale, stated", "C1 · Debt to the penny, daily — the staircase of the last three years"], "f": ["The fortieth trillion took 154 days.", "$90,203 a second, around the clock.", "Doubled, doubled, and doubled again.", "The ledger is two ledgers."]}, {"t": "The Demographic Turn", "u": "/demo/the-demographic-turn", "k": "Report", "d": "In 1960, five countries on Earth had fertility below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman. Today it is 119 of 217 countries — and weighted by population, about two-thirds of humanity now lives in a country below replacement. This re", "tell": "Two-thirds of humanity lives below replacement.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["World Bank"], "x": ["A1 · The crossing field — every country's fertility path, 1960–2023", "B1 · Countries below 2.1, year by year — with today's population share", "C1 · The eight steepest falls and the eight lowest floors"], "f": ["Two-thirds of humanity lives below replacement.", "The count only climbs.", "Iran: 7.5 to 1.7 in one lifetime.", "South Korea: 0.75."]}, {"t": "The Excess", "u": "/demo/the-excess", "k": "Report", "d": "When a catastrophe moves through a population, the honest measure is not the attributed toll — it is how many more people died than the years before said should have. This report reads that measure for the pandemic years, and it computes no", "tell": "The books and the graves disagree — by country.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": ["OWID"], "x": ["A1 · Excess mortality P-scores — seven countries, each at its registry’s own step", "B1 · Cumulative excess vs reported deaths — the ratio ladder", "C1 · Monthly deaths, Russia — pandemic years over the 2015–2019 range"], "f": ["The books and the graves disagree — by country.", "Two countries, one toll, two stories.", "You do not need a model to see it."]}, {"t": "The Harvest", "u": "/demo/the-harvest", "k": "Report", "d": "In 1961 a hectare of the world's cereal land gave 1.35 tonnes of grain; in 2024 it gives 4.21 — 3.1 times the harvest from the same field. Over the same years the arable land behind each living person fell by half, 0.36 hectares to 0.17 — t", "tell": "3.1 times the grain from the same field.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": ["OWID"], "x": ["A1 · Cereal yield — world, tonnes per hectare, 1961–2024", "B1 · Yield rising · arable land per person falling — 1961 onward, two panels, two units", "C1 · Cropland and grazing land — world, 10,000 BCE to 2025", "C2 · The last 125 years — 1900 to 2025, where the pasture peak lives", "D1 · Cereal yield, eight countries — 1961–2024, tonnes per hectare"], "f": ["3.1 times the grain from the same field.", "Half the land per person.", "The pasture peak."]}, {"t": "The Learning Curves", "u": "/demo/the-learning-curves", "k": "Report", "d": "When the world decides to make a thing at scale, the price does not drift down — it collapses on a curve, and this report draws four of those collapses from the primary records, indexed honestly on one chart. Reading a human genome: $95 mil", "tell": "Biology beat Moore's law.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": ["OWID"], "x": ["A1 · Four price collapses, indexed to first year = 100 — log axis", "B1 · Three frontiers, real units, log axes — with computed halving times", "C1 · Cost per kilogram to low-Earth orbit — every vehicle, by class, log axis", "D1 · Novel drug approvals per year — the curated decade, beside the sequencing collapse"], "f": ["Biology beat Moore's law.", "The energy curves are slower — and unstoppable.", "Launch is a scatter, not a line.", "The gate does not bend."]}, {"t": "The Names of the Storms", "u": "/demo/the-names-of-the-storms", "k": "Report", "d": "Humanity has been writing down its cyclones for centuries, and the world's weather agencies keep the ledger whole: 13,584 tropical storms since 1842, every one with its track, from the unnamed terrors of the sailing era to the lettered seas", "tell": "13,584 storms, every one with a path.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": [], "x": ["A1 · The atlas — every recorded tropical cyclone, 1842–2026, season by season", "B1 · Storms per season, 1842–2026 — with the eras of observation marked"], "f": ["13,584 storms, every one with a path.", "The climb is the watchers.", "The coasts always kept better books."]}, {"t": "The Old World", "u": "/demo/the-old-world", "k": "Report", "d": "Half of humanity is older than the median age, half younger — and that middle has moved: 22.2 years in 1950, 30.4 in 2023. The world got eight years older in seventy-three. Behind the world line the countries have flown apart: Japan's media", "tell": "Japan was younger than the world is now.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": ["OWID"], "x": ["A1 · Median age — world, 1950–2023 estimates · 2024–2100 projection, dashed", "B1 · Median age, ten countries — 1950–2023, estimates only", "C1 · Median age, the ten youngest and ten oldest — 2023"], "f": ["Japan was younger than the world is now.", "One country got younger.", "A 45-year gap between countries."]}, {"t": "Who Holds the Periodic Table", "u": "/demo/the-periodic-table", "k": "Report", "d": "The energy transition is built from a short list of elements, and the United States Geological Survey counts, every year, who actually digs them. The answer is a concentration chart unlike anything else in the world economy: 98.7% of the wo", "tell": "Four markets are one country.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": ["USGS"], "x": ["A1 · The dominance ladder — the top producer's share of world production, per commodity", "B1 · Producer breakdowns — top eight per commodity, to scale", "C1 · Digger vs holder — top producer share against top reserves share"], "f": ["Four markets are one country.", "The diggers and the holders disagree.", "Copper is what healthy looks like — and it's 23%."]}, {"t": "The Power Mix", "u": "/demo/the-power-mix", "k": "Report", "d": "The world generated 31,772 terawatt-hours of electricity last year — and how it made them is the most consequential recipe on Earth. This report reads forty years of the global generation record, every source, every country, and finds a mac", "tell": "Coal is still a third of everything.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["World Bank", "OWID", "Ember", "Energy Institute", "Natural Earth"], "x": ["A1 · The generation mix, 1985–2025 — shares of a growing whole", "A2 · The globe — every country by its largest source, or by its carbon number", "B1 · Generation by source, TWh, 1985–2025", "C1 · Low-carbon share × grid carbon intensity — every major grid, sized by generation", "C2 · GDP per person × electricity per person — log-log, every reporting country", "D1 · Electricity per person per year — the top eight, the giants, the bottom eight"], "f": ["Coal is still a third of everything.", "Solar caught nuclear in 2025.", "The mix writes the carbon number.", "The 163-fold divide."]}, {"t": "The Pressure Board", "u": "/demo/the-pressure-board", "k": "Report", "d": "Is the AI economy overheating? This report will not answer with a number — a composite \"bubble index\" is editorial weights wearing objectivity's clothes, and this site does not manufacture data. What it does instead is put every dial this s", "tell": "The money is filed; the deals are not.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": [], "x": ["A1 · The pressure board — every AI-economy dial the site computes, live", "B1 · Three collisions — each drawn from the two dials that make it"], "f": ["The money is filed; the deals are not.", "The wedge meets a machine at full stretch.", "The line grows ten times faster than it clears."]}, {"t": "The Queue", "u": "/demo/the-queue", "k": "Report", "d": "The question of the decade has an arithmetic, and this report runs it from the primary records. On one side, the load: data centers took 176 TWh — 4.4% of US electricity — in 2023, and the national laboratory that counts them projects 325 t", "tell": "The queue is 1.7× the entire fleet.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28", "a": ["SEC EDGAR", "EIA", "LBNL"], "x": ["A1 · Data-center electricity, measured then projected — the wedge fan", "B1 · The queue waterfall — entered · withdrawn · built · and what waits today", "C1 · Gross additions by vintage year, 2000–2026 — with the planned list ahead", "D1 · The collision, three ways — every assumption on the table"], "f": ["The queue is 1.7× the entire fleet.", "Fifteen cents on the dollar.", "2025 set the record the decade must repeat.", "The floor clears; the ceiling doesn't."]}, {"t": "The Signal Grid", "u": "/demo/the-signal-grid", "k": "Report", "d": "The planet has grown a nervous system, and it lives in four strata: 16,472 active satellites overhead — two-thirds of them belonging to a single company — 722 submarine cables under the sea, 5,257 interconnection facilities on the ground wh", "tell": "One company is two-thirds of the sky.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28", "a": ["OWID"], "x": ["A1 · The four strata — orbit · sea · attached · ground, on one map", "B1 · Active satellites by launch year — the constellation era", "C1 · The network census by declared type — and the thirty largest meeting rooms", "D1 · Active satellites by cataloged purpose — including the untagged"], "f": ["One company is two-thirds of the sky.", "The ring stands still — so we pinned it.", "A few thousand drive; twelve thousand drink.", "The catalogs admit 24."]}, {"t": "The Standing Army", "u": "/demo/the-standing-army", "k": "Report", "d": "Of every 1,000 people alive, how many are soldiers? The record keeps that number for two hundred and one years, and it is a mountain range with a long western slope: 9.11 per 1,000 in 1816, 31.95 at the 1945 summit — one person in 31 — and ", "tell": "One person in 379.", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29", "a": ["OWID"], "x": ["A1 · Soldiers per 1,000 people — world, 1816–2016", "B1 · Per-soldier spending · per-capita soldiering — 1988–2016, two panels, two units", "B2 · World military expenditure — 1988–2025", "C1 · Military personnel, eight states — 1816–2016, thousands"], "f": ["One person in 379.", "Fewer soldiers, dearer each.", "Every giant is a former giant."]}, {"t": "The War Record", "u": "/demo/the-war-record", "k": "Report", "d": "Humanity has kept books on its own wars for six centuries, and this report reads them whole: a conflict catalog reaching back to 1400, every named war since 1816 with its participants and sides, and — from 1989 — every recorded battle event", "tell": "The long peace is measured, not imagined.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-28", "a": ["OWID", "UCDP", "Brecke", "SIPRI"], "x": ["A1 · The atlas — every recorded war, 1400–2024, on one playing map", "A2 · Conflict death rate, 1400–2000 — the six-century line", "B1 · Conflict deaths by type, 1989–2024 — stacked", "C1 · Crude oil, 1861–2024, with its war shocks flagged — and world military spending, 1970–2024", "D1 · The eighty deadliest wars on the mapped record"], "f": ["The long peace is measured, not imagined.", "War changed species.", "Two wars dwarf two centuries.", "Every oil shock has a war at its door."]}, {"t": "The Warming Record", "u": "/demo/the-warming-record", "k": "Report", "d": "NASA has reconstructed the planet's surface temperature for every month since 1880 — one number per month, anomalies against the 1951–1980 mean. This report reads all 1,759 of them and finds a record with no suspense left in it: 1976 was th", "tell": "1976 was the last year below the baseline.", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27", "a": ["NASA GISS"], "x": ["A1 · The warming stripes — every year, colored by its anomaly", "B1 · Annual anomalies with decade-mean steps", "C1 · Monthly anomalies, 1880–2026 — the full field"], "f": ["1976 was the last year below the baseline.", "The three hottest years are the last three.", "Seven steps up, none down.", "September 2023: +1.48°C, the field's deepest cell."]}, {"t": "Thirty Days of Earth", "u": "/demo/world-events", "k": "Report", "d": "In the last month the planet logged 637 earthquakes at magnitude 4.5 or greater — the largest a M7.7 — while NASA's event trackers followed 1,374 natural events from wildfires to floods to severe storms. 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Size and depth are different stories, drawn together.", "rep": "The AI Layoffs Ledger", "ed": "2", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Announced is not effective.", "u": "/demo/ai-economics/layoffs", "k": "Finding", "d": "Where both dates are tracked, the gap between headline and last day runs from zero days to nearly three years — HP's program stretches to fiscal 2028.", "rep": "The AI Layoffs Ledger", "ed": "2", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Not one dollar figure in this machine comes from a filing. Capex filings corroborate the S", "u": "/demo/circular-machine", "k": "Finding", "d": "Not one dollar figure in this machine comes from a filing. Capex filings corroborate the SCALE of spending, but no counterparty split is ever filed — every specific number here is press-reported, and ", "rep": "The Circular Machine", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "More than half the machine has no number at all. Twelve of twenty-one relationships — incl", "u": "/demo/circular-machine", "k": "Finding", "d": "More than half the machine has no number at all. Twelve of twenty-one relationships — including most of the return legs that make the loop a loop — are publicly acknowledged but financially undisclose", "rep": "The Circular Machine", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The headline figures are ceilings, staged and conditional. Nvidia→OpenAI ($100B, staged wi", "u": "/demo/circular-machine", "k": "Finding", "d": "The headline figures are ceilings, staged and conditional. 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That is th", "rep": "The Circular Machine", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The climb is filed, not claimed.", "u": "/demo/data-center-decade", "k": "Finding", "d": "The five builders’ combined capex rose from $69B in FY2019 to $361B in FY2025 — 5.2× in six fiscal years, every figure carrying an accession number.", "rep": "The Data Center Decade", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Fiscal 2023 was the dip before the sprint.", "u": "/demo/data-center-decade", "k": "Finding", "d": "Combined capex FELL 6% in FY2023 — then rose +54% and +65% in the two years after: the steepest filed growth in the window. In the filings, the AI build-out has a birthday.", "rep": "The Data Center Decade", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Three announcements outweigh the biggest filed year.", "u": "/demo/data-center-decade", "k": "Finding", "d": "The Circular Machine’s ceilings — $100B, $300B, $30B — total $430B, more than the five builders’ combined FY2025 actuals. The announced economy is running ahead of the filed one, and only one of the t", "rep": "The Data Center Decade", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The supplier spends least and catches most.", "u": "/demo/data-center-decade", "k": "Finding", "d": "Nvidia’s own filed capex peaked at $6B — against the four builders’ hundreds. The build-out’s money arrives AT the chip maker as revenue; it leaves the others as capex. That asymmetry IS the machine.", "rep": "The Data Center Decade", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "In 2010, AI left Moore's law.", "u": "/demo/faster-than-moore", "k": "Finding", "d": "Training compute doubled every 20 months before 2010 — Moore's own pace — and every 5.7 months since: four times faster than the law that built its chips.", "rep": "Faster than Moore", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The frontier is 5×10²⁶.", "u": "/demo/faster-than-moore", "k": "Finding", "d": "Grok 4's documented run is roughly a billion times AlexNet's 2012 training — thirteen years apart on the same field.", "rep": "Faster than Moore", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The 10²⁵ club has 22 members — in a handful of hands.", "u": "/demo/faster-than-moore", "k": "Finding", "d": "Nearly all trained since 2023, nearly all in the United States, by fewer than ten organizations.", "rep": "Faster than Moore", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Moore's law itself never bent.", "u": "/demo/faster-than-moore", "k": "Finding", "d": "A steady 24-month doubling for fifty years. The escape came from capital and parallelism, not from the substrate — the receipts for that live in the capex filings.", "rep": "Faster than Moore", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The survived majority is the story.", "u": "/demo/fatal-margin", "k": "Finding", "d": "In 51% of 30,968 investigated accidents since 2008, the highest recorded injury was NONE. The margin between accident and tragedy is the widest, least-reported number in aviation.", "rep": "The Fatal Margin", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The record is shrinking.", "u": "/demo/fatal-margin", "k": "Finding", "d": "Investigations fell from 1,892 in 2008 to 1,633 (2025) in the last complete year — while the fatal share stayed near 20%, unmoved by the decline.", "rep": "The Fatal Margin", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Geography is exposure.", "u": "/demo/fatal-margin", "k": "Finding", "d": "CA leads the record with 2,306 events — not because its skies are dangerous, but because that is where America flies small aircraft.", "rep": "The Fatal Margin", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The deadliest events are the record’s rarest.", "u": "/demo/fatal-margin", "k": "Finding", "d": "Events with ten or more deaths number just 100 in eighteen years — each one carrying its identifier in the ledger.", "rep": "The Fatal Margin", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Six shocks are half the energy.", "u": "/demo/fifty-years-of-shocks", "k": "Finding", "d": "The M8.5+ giants — 6 events in fifty years — released 53% of everything the catalog recorded. The planet’s violence is not a murmur; it is a handful of detonations.", "rep": "Fifty Years of Big Shocks", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Two nines bracket the era.", "u": "/demo/fifty-years-of-shocks", "k": "Finding", "d": "Sumatra 2004 and Tōhoku 2011 — 35% of the half-century’s energy between just the two of them. Decades are quiet or loud by whether a nine happened.", "rep": "Fifty Years of Big Shocks", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The giants all live on subduction zones.", "u": "/demo/fifty-years-of-shocks", "k": "Finding", "d": "Every M8.5+ event sits where ocean floor dives — Sumatra, Japan, Chile, Kamchatka. The map is a mechanism, not a scatter.", "rep": "Fifty Years of Big Shocks", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The era’s newest giant is months old.", "u": "/demo/fifty-years-of-shocks", "k": "Finding", "d": "The 2025 Kamchatka M8.8 is the largest shock in over a decade — and its aftershocks are still visible in our rolling thirty-day report. The long view and the live view are one record.", "rep": "Fifty Years of Big Shocks", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The window’s record hour landed this summer.", "u": "/demo/grid-under-load", "k": "Finding", "d": "The single hottest hour of the window — 761,177 MWh of national demand — landed in July 2026, and the calendar shows this summer's hot band running wider and deeper than last year's.", "rep": "The Grid Under Load", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "A continent breathes in unison.", "u": "/demo/grid-under-load", "k": "Finding", "d": "The heatmap's horizontal banding — cool early-UTC hours, burning evening rows — is every household and factory keeping nearly the same rhythm; the seasonal waves ride on top of a daily pulse that neve", "rep": "The Grid Under Load", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Texas is a nation-scale grid on its own.", "u": "/demo/grid-under-load", "k": "Finding", "d": "ERCOT's peak hour, 91k MWh, would rank it among the largest national grids anywhere — and its summer amplitude dwarfs its winter, the signature of an air-conditioning-driven, fast-growing system.", "rep": "The Grid Under Load", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Texas grows ahead — and the mid-Atlantic quietly defies the narrative.", "u": "/demo/grid-under-load", "k": "Finding", "d": "In the last full month, Texas ran +3–4% above the same month last year while the mid-Atlantic — home of the Virginia data-center corridor — came in BELOW its own prior year. The hourly record cannot s", "rep": "The Grid Under Load", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The longest measurement humanity keeps.", "u": "/demo/one-day-of-the-sun", "k": "Finding", "d": "The sunspot count has been taken every month since 1749 — before the United States existed — and it is still taken today. This page reads the newest month live.", "rep": "One Day of the Sun", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The Sun has seasons, and we are in one.", "u": "/demo/one-day-of-the-sun", "k": "Finding", "d": "Eleven years, crest to crest, for twenty-five recorded cycles — and the current cycle has already outrun the forecasts made at its birth.", "rep": "One Day of the Sun", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Grid weather is real weather.", "u": "/demo/one-day-of-the-sun", "k": "Finding", "d": "NOAA maintains a storm scale for the power grid the way it does for hurricanes — because the star can reach the transformers. That scale is on this page, live.", "rep": "One Day of the Sun", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "One spacecraft found half of everything.", "u": "/demo/other-earths", "k": "Finding", "d": "Kepler and its K2 reprise account for 53% of all 6,354 confirmed planets — a single instrument’s field of view, stared at long enough, out-discovered the rest of astronomy combined.", "rep": "The Other Earths", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The record has eras, and they are instruments.", "u": "/demo/other-earths", "k": "Finding", "d": "Radial velocity owned the field’s first fifteen years; the transit method now carries 74% of the catalog. Method share is a history of telescopes, not of planets.", "rep": "The Other Earths", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The field’s gaps are limits, not absences.", "u": "/demo/other-earths", "k": "Finding", "d": "The empty lanes in period × radius — long-period small worlds above all — are where no current method sees well. The map is honest about being a map of vision.", "rep": "The Other Earths", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The story started before its famous beginning.", "u": "/demo/other-earths", "k": "Finding", "d": "The first confirmed planets date to 1992 — orbiting a dead star’s pulsar beam, three years before 51 Pegasi b made the field respectable.", "rep": "The Other Earths", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The trail is mostly insiders.", "u": "/demo/paper-trail", "k": "Finding", "d": "82% of 5,004 filings are insider-trading forms — the routine of executive stock plans. The disclosure everyone imagines is a thin film on a river of paperwork.", "rep": "The Paper Trail", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The famous filings are a sliver.", "u": "/demo/paper-trail", "k": "Finding", "d": "8-K current reports — the filings that make headlines — are 5% of the stream; annual and quarterly reports are 2%. Counted as paper, news is rare.", "rep": "The Paper Trail", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Filing velocity varies three-fold.", "u": "/demo/paper-trail", "k": "Finding", "d": "META burned through its last thousand filings in 26 months; MSFT took 76 months. The window’s reach IS the speedometer.", "rep": "The Paper Trail", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The heaviest paper is the annual report.", "u": "/demo/paper-trail", "k": "Finding", "d": "The stream’s biggest documents are XBRL-laden 10-Ks and proxies at 89 MB and up — format weight, not importance, and the method says so.", "rep": "The Paper Trail", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The gate is smaller than its reputation.", "u": "/demo/phase-three-gate", "k": "Finding", "d": "The median completed phase-3 trial enrolled 224 patients. The blockbuster image of phase three — tens of thousands of subjects — describes a tiny elite of trials, not the phase.", "rep": "The Phase-Three Gate", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The top ten trials carry 31% of all enrollment.", "u": "/demo/phase-three-gate", "k": "Finding", "d": "Ten studies — one percent of the window — enrolled as many patients as the bottom 821 combined. Concentration, not scale, is the phase’s signature.", "rep": "The Phase-Three Gate", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Fifteen names run 20% of the gate.", "u": "/demo/phase-three-gate", "k": "Finding", "d": "The most frequent lead sponsors are the industry’s biggest — and their strategies differ visibly: many small gates for some, few giant ones for others.", "rep": "The Phase-Three Gate", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The money map is chronic disease.", "u": "/demo/phase-three-gate", "k": "Finding", "d": "Rheumatoid Arthritis leads the conditions table — late-stage medicine concentrates where patients are many and treatment is lifelong.", "rep": "The Phase-Three Gate", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The fall has stopped.", "u": "/demo/the-arsenal", "k": "Finding", "d": "From 70,374 warheads to 12,187 in forty years — and the newest years of the record show the descent flattening, with lines turning up.", "rep": "The Arsenal", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "1962: one detonation every other day.", "u": "/demo/the-arsenal", "k": "Finding", "d": "178 detonations in twelve months — one every other day — the year before the Partial Test Ban. After 1996, the ledger falls nearly silent.", "rep": "The Arsenal", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Exactly one state has ever walked away.", "u": "/demo/the-arsenal", "k": "Finding", "d": "South Africa built six, dismantled six, and left. In eighty years of this ledger, its zero is the only one anyone earned.", "rep": "The Arsenal", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The fortieth trillion took 154 days.", "u": "/demo/the-debt-ledger", "k": "Finding", "d": "The first took 191 fiscal years. The ladder's rungs have shortened from centuries to decades to seasons — the fortieth crossed on August 18, 2026.", "rep": "The Debt Ledger", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "$90,203 a second, around the clock.", "u": "/demo/the-debt-ledger", "k": "Finding", "d": "The trailing year added $2.84T — arithmetic on two ledger rows a year apart, not a projection.", "rep": "The Debt Ledger", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Doubled, doubled, and doubled again.", "u": "/demo/the-debt-ledger", "k": "Finding", "d": "$5T in 1996 · $10T in 2008 · $20T in 2017 · $40T in 2026 — three doublings in thirty years, each faster in dollars than the one before.", "rep": "The Debt Ledger", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The ledger is two ledgers.", "u": "/demo/the-debt-ledger", "k": "Finding", "d": "$32.3T is owed to the public — markets, funds, foreign holders — and $7.8T to the government's own trust funds. The staircase splits them.", "rep": "The Debt Ledger", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Two-thirds of humanity lives below replacement.", "u": "/demo/the-demographic-turn", "k": "Finding", "d": "67.8% by 2023 population weights — up from under 2% of today's map in 1960. The turn is not coming; on the record, it has happened.", "rep": "The Demographic Turn", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The count only climbs.", "u": "/demo/the-demographic-turn", "k": "Finding", "d": "5 countries in 1960 · 42 in 1980 · 80 in 2000 · 119 in 2023. In sixty-three years of records the below-replacement count has never fallen for long.", "rep": "The Demographic Turn", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Iran: 7.5 to 1.7 in one lifetime.", "u": "/demo/the-demographic-turn", "k": "Finding", "d": "The record's steepest great fall — with Kuwait, Brunei and Costa Rica on the same slope. The fastest transitions were not in Europe.", "rep": "The Demographic Turn", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "South Korea: 0.75.", "u": "/demo/the-demographic-turn", "k": "Finding", "d": "The lowest national fertility ever recorded in this series — at that rate each generation is about a third the size of the one before it, as arithmetic, not prophecy.", "rep": "The Demographic Turn", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The books and the graves disagree — by country.", "u": "/demo/the-excess", "k": "Finding", "d": "Egypt's excess ran 14.51 times its reported toll; the Philippines 4.35; Russia 3.35; the United States 1.13. The undercount is not a property of the pandemic — it is a property of the counting.", "rep": "The Excess", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Two countries, one toll, two stories.", "u": "/demo/the-excess", "k": "Finding", "d": "Russia and the United States carry nearly identical excess estimates — about 1.35 million each — with officially reported tolls three times apart. Both facts, one board.", "rep": "The Excess", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "You do not need a model to see it.", "u": "/demo/the-excess", "k": "Finding", "d": "Set the pandemic months over the registry's own five-year range and the excess is visible to the naked eye — the raw record carries the argument without a single fitted line.", "rep": "The Excess", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "3.1 times the grain from the same field.", "u": "/demo/the-harvest", "k": "Finding", "d": "A world hectare gave 1.35 tonnes of cereal in 1961 and 4.21 in 2024 — a staircase of six decades whose highest step, 2023's 4.23, stands at the record's far end.", "rep": "The Harvest", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Half the land per person.", "u": "/demo/the-harvest", "k": "Finding", "d": "Arable land behind each living person fell from 0.36 to 0.17 hectares while the yield line tripled — two units, two panels, and a counterfactual this page declines to compute.", "rep": "The Harvest", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The pasture peak.", "u": "/demo/the-harvest", "k": "Finding", "d": "Grazing land — the largest human use of land on Earth — peaked at 3.28 billion hectares in 2001 and stands at 3.20 billion in 2025. The largest land use humanity has is shrinking.", "rep": "The Harvest", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Biology beat Moore's law.", "u": "/demo/the-learning-curves", "k": "Finding", "d": "The genome halved in cost every 1.04 years — a 181,585-fold collapse in 21 years. The fastest sustained price decline in the industrial record is not in silicon.", "rep": "The Learning Curves", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The energy curves are slower — and unstoppable.", "u": "/demo/the-learning-curves", "k": "Finding", "d": "Solar halves every 6.4 years, batteries every 4.9 — for five decades and three, respectively, through every cycle and shock in between.", "rep": "The Learning Curves", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Launch is a scatter, not a line.", "u": "/demo/the-learning-curves", "k": "Finding", "d": "61 vehicles, three classes, six decades — and the modern lower edge sits orders of magnitude below the frontier of the 1960s. The record refuses a single curve, so the report does too.", "rep": "The Learning Curves", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The gate does not bend.", "u": "/demo/the-learning-curves", "k": "Finding", "d": "22 to 59 novel drugs a year, a decade running, while sequencing collapsed six orders of magnitude behind it. Learning curves bend prices — not institutions.", "rep": "The Learning Curves", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "13,584 storms, every one with a path.", "u": "/demo/the-names-of-the-storms", "k": "Finding", "d": "The ledger of the sky goes back before the telegraph — and the atlas plays all of it, from unnamed sail-era terrors to this season's lettered list.", "rep": "The Names of the Storms", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The climb is the watchers.", "u": "/demo/the-names-of-the-storms", "k": "Finding", "d": "Season counts triple across the archive — with the jumps landing exactly at aircraft reconnaissance and satellite coverage. The record grew eyes, and the exhibit says so.", "rep": "The Names of the Storms", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The coasts always kept better books.", "u": "/demo/the-names-of-the-storms", "k": "Finding", "d": "Landfall counts hold steadier than sea counts across every era — where storms meet people, the record was always surest.", "rep": "The Names of the Storms", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Japan was younger than the world is now.", "u": "/demo/the-old-world", "k": "Finding", "d": "Japan's 1950 median was 21.3 — below the world's 2023 figure of 30.4 — and stands at 49.0 today. The world as a whole is now older than the future's oldest country was at the record's start.", "rep": "The Old World", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "One country got younger.", "u": "/demo/the-old-world", "k": "Finding", "d": "Nigeria's median fell from 18.1 to 17.8 across the whole record — while South Korea's rose 26.8 years and China passed the United States in 2019. The world line hides all three.", "rep": "The Old World", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "A 45-year gap between countries.", "u": "/demo/the-old-world", "k": "Finding", "d": "Central African Republic's median is 14.3; Vatican's is 59.6. The same column, the same year — and the widest human age gap the record holds.", "rep": "The Old World", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Four markets are one country.", "u": "/demo/the-periodic-table", "k": "Finding", "d": "Gallium 98.7%, tungsten 82.7%, graphite 79.4% — one flag; cobalt 75.9% — another. The transition's shopping list runs through two capitals.", "rep": "Who Holds the Periodic Table", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The diggers and the holders disagree.", "u": "/demo/the-periodic-table", "k": "Finding", "d": "Australia mines the most lithium; Chile holds the most. Zimbabwe sits on the chromium. Where the names split, the next decade's map is already drawn.", "rep": "Who Holds the Periodic Table", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Copper is what healthy looks like — and it's 23%.", "u": "/demo/the-periodic-table", "k": "Finding", "d": "The most diversified market on the list still gives its top producer nearly a quarter. Concentration is not the exception in minerals; it is the norm.", "rep": "Who Holds the Periodic Table", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Coal is still a third of everything.", "u": "/demo/the-power-mix", "k": "Finding", "d": "33% of world generation in 2025 — against 38% in 1985. Forty years of energy transition have so far changed coal's share by five points.", "rep": "The Power Mix", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Solar caught nuclear in 2025.", "u": "/demo/the-power-mix", "k": "Finding", "d": "From 32 TWh in 2010 to 2,779 TWh — an 86-fold climb in fifteen years, to within a rounding error of the technology that had a fifty-year head start.", "rep": "The Power Mix", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The mix writes the carbon number.", "u": "/demo/the-power-mix", "k": "Finding", "d": "41 gCO₂/kWh in France (69% nuclear) · 525 in China · 1,000 in Uzbekistan — a 24-fold spread that maps almost perfectly onto the low-carbon share.", "rep": "The Power Mix", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The 163-fold divide.", "u": "/demo/the-power-mix", "k": "Finding", "d": "Norway draws 28,598 kWh per person per year; Nigeria 175. Half the story of world power is who has it.", "rep": "The Power Mix", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The money is filed; the deals are not.", "u": "/demo/the-pressure-board", "k": "Finding", "d": "Capital spending grew 65% year on year in the filings themselves — while zero of the twenty-one publicly claimed mega-deals traces to a filing. Both true, on one board.", "rep": "The Pressure Board", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The wedge meets a machine at full stretch.", "u": "/demo/the-pressure-board", "k": "Finding", "d": "Data centers may need 17–46 GW of new around-the-clock power by 2028; the best build year in the modern record delivered 57 — once, for everything at once.", "rep": "The Pressure Board", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The line grows ten times faster than it clears.", "u": "/demo/the-pressure-board", "k": "Finding", "d": "890 GW entered the interconnection queues in one year. History builds 14.8% of what enters. Neither number bends the other.", "rep": "The Pressure Board", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The queue is 1.7× the entire fleet.", "u": "/demo/the-queue", "k": "Finding", "d": "2,363 GW are waiting for a grid connection — against 1,405 GW operating. America's power problem is not ambition; it is the line at the door.", "rep": "The Queue", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "Fifteen cents on the dollar.", "u": "/demo/the-queue", "k": "Finding", "d": "Of the 2,613 GW that entered the queue 2000–2018, 14.8% reached operation and 76.9% withdrew — after a median 3.1 years in line. The queue is where capacity waits, and mostly where it dies.", "rep": "The Queue", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "2025 set the record the decade must repeat.", "u": "/demo/the-queue", "k": "Finding", "d": "57 GW entered service — the biggest year since the 2002 gas boom's 70. The planned list promises 286 GW more; history says treat every date on it as an opening bid.", "rep": "The Queue", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "The floor clears; the ceiling doesn't.", "u": "/demo/the-queue", "k": "Finding", "d": "At LBNL's low case the wedge is absorbed with room to spare. At its high case the planned list falls short under every slippage scenario — and the shortfall lands hardest where the queue is thickest.", "rep": "The Queue", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "One company is two-thirds of the sky.", "u": "/demo/the-signal-grid", "k": "Finding", "d": "11,042 of 16,472 active satellites are Starlink — 67%, launched almost entirely since 2019. The space age's population chart is now a corporate chart.", "rep": "The Signal Grid", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "The ring stands still — so we pinned it.", "u": "/demo/the-signal-grid", "k": "Finding", "d": "585 geostationary satellites mapped at their true longitudes, computed from the orbital record itself. The crowded arcs sit over the meridians the traffic pays for.", "rep": "The Signal Grid", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "A few thousand drive; twelve thousand drink.", "u": "/demo/the-signal-grid", "k": "Finding", "d": "2,655 content networks against 12,384 eyeball networks — the registry's own census of upstream and downstream — meeting in 1,320 exchanges, São Paulo's the largest on Earth.", "rep": "The Signal Grid", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "The catalogs admit 24.", "u": "/demo/the-signal-grid", "k": "Finding", "d": "The public military group holds 24 active satellites — and 3,992 more carry no public purpose at all. What the record cannot classify, this page counts rather than invents.", "rep": "The Signal Grid", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "One person in 379.", "u": "/demo/the-standing-army", "k": "Finding", "d": "In 1945, one person in 31 alive was under arms. In 2016, one in 379. The armed share of humanity fell by a factor of twelve from its summit — the lowest armed share the two-century record holds.", "rep": "The Standing Army", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Fewer soldiers, dearer each.", "u": "/demo/the-standing-army", "k": "Finding", "d": "From 1988 to 2016 the armed share fell from 5.64 to 2.64 per 1,000 while spending per soldier rose from $61,292 to $99,581 — the same years, opposite directions, two units this page declines to merge.", "rep": "The Standing Army", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "Every giant is a former giant.", "u": "/demo/the-standing-army", "k": "Finding", "d": "All eight majors' largest armies are decades past — 5 peaked in 1945 alone. The biggest force standing in the file's last year, China's 2,333 thousand, is less than a fifth of the column's all-time hi", "rep": "The Standing Army", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-29"}, {"t": "The long peace is measured, not imagined.", "u": "/demo/the-war-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "The death rate of the last eighty years sits — below the six-century median — and the line, not this sentence, carries the claim.", "rep": "The War Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "War changed species.", "u": "/demo/the-war-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "Interstate war is 12.1% of recorded conflict deaths since 1989 — the modern record is civil war and violence against civilians. 2022 broke the pattern.", "rep": "The War Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "Two wars dwarf two centuries.", "u": "/demo/the-war-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "The World Wars carry 79% of all battle deaths on the mapped record since 1816 — the house's concentration pattern, at its darkest.", "rep": "The War Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "Every oil shock has a war at its door.", "u": "/demo/the-war-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "1973 · 1979 · 1990 · 2022 — the flags sit on the price line itself. The direction of cause runs price←war, and the page says so.", "rep": "The War Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-28"}, {"t": "1976 was the last year below the baseline.", "u": "/demo/the-warming-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "49 consecutive years have now come in above the 1951–1980 mean — a streak longer than most working lifetimes.", "rep": "The Warming Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The three hottest years are the last three.", "u": "/demo/the-warming-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "2024 (+1.28°C), then 2025 and 2023 — the record's entire podium sits inside the most recent three years of a 146-year series.", "rep": "The Warming Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Seven steps up, none down.", "u": "/demo/the-warming-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "Every completed decade since the 1950s has been warmer than the decade before it — the staircase is monotonic for seventy years.", "rep": "The Warming Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "September 2023: +1.48°C, the field's deepest cell.", "u": "/demo/the-warming-record", "k": "Finding", "d": "The hottest single month against its baseline in 1,759 measured months — inside the 2023–2025 column that darkens the whole field's edge.", "rep": "The Warming Record", "ed": "1", "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "One event owns the month.", "u": "/demo/world-events", "k": "Finding", "d": "The M7.7 near Ende, Indonesia released 64% of the entire window's seismic energy by itself — hundreds of smaller shocks barely register beside it. Magnitude is a log scale, and the energy budget exhib", "rep": "Thirty Days of Earth", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "What the famous arcs actually carried.", "u": "/demo/world-events", "k": "Finding", "d": "Japan, the Kamchatka–Kuril arc, and the Alaska–Aleutians carried 11% of the month's M4.5+ events yet only 1% of its energy — because this window's giant struck the Flores arc instead. Busy is not viol", "rep": "Thirty Days of Earth", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "Depth is structure, not noise.", "u": "/demo/world-events", "k": "Finding", "d": "26 shocks struck deeper than 300 km, and they are not scattered — they stack into the Tonga–Fiji column where the Pacific floor dives into the mantle. A month of records is enough to see the planet's ", "rep": "Thirty Days of Earth", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "The tsunami layer's finding is a zero, and it says so.", "u": "/demo/world-events", "k": "Finding", "d": "0 of 637 quakes this window carry the USGS tsunami flag — the 7.7 included. The layer stays on the map reporting its zero, because absence stated is data and absence hidden is a lie of omission.", "rep": "Thirty Days of Earth", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-27"}, {"t": "What NASA watches most is fire.", "u": "/demo/world-events", "k": "Finding", "d": "1,299 of 1,374 tracked natural events are wildfires — a count of tracked incidents, not burned area, and the method says so — with floods riding the monsoon belt a distant second.", "rep": "Thirty Days of Earth", "ed": null, "pub": "2026-08-27"}]}