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Animal cruelty can be a warning sign of child abuse

2–3× greater likelihood of child abuse

Animal cruelty after age 10 is associated with a two- to threefold greater likelihood that a child is being abused. But the traditional trio of bedwetting, firesetting and cruelty to animals is not supported as a predictor of homicidal behavior.

Math can prove something exists without finding it

Imagine choosing an object at random from a collection. If you can prove there is even a tiny chance it has a certain property, then at least one such object must exist. You might have no idea which one it is. Mathematicians use this trick to prove existence without constructing a single example.

Three quakes released nearly half a century’s seismic moment

Almost ½

The 2004 Indian Ocean, 1960 Chile, and 1964 Alaska earthquakes together accounted for almost half of the seismic moment released by earthquakes worldwide from 1906 to 2005. The 2004 quake alone accounted for roughly one-eighth.

Too much groundwater pumping helped sink Mexico City

~10 m

Over the last century, pumping too much water from beneath the city contributed to an estimated 10 meters of sinking. Mexico City spread across the drained bed of Lake Texcoco. The lake’s soft sediments also make the city vulnerable to soil liquefaction during earthquakes.

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