https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/the-growing-partisan-divide-in-views-of-higher-education/

This broad overview of data on views about higher education in the U.S. reveals a complex set off attitudes – a public that still sees the benefit of a college education but has grown wary about the politics and culture on college campuses and the value of a four-year degree that has an ever-increasing price tag.

No amount of continuous repeats in coffeeshops around the world can dull the crystalline brilliance of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue one bit. The album turned 60 three days ago, and it still stands as one of the most influential albums, jazz or otherwise, of all time… indeed, as “one of the single greatest achievements in American music.”
http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/miles-davis-iconic-1959-album-kind-of-blue-turns-60.html

"Despite continually mapping the distribution of languages across the world, scientists have few clear answers about what caused the emergence of thousands of languages. Collectively, human beings speak more than 7,000 distinct languages, and these languages are not uniformly distributed across the planet. For example, far more languages are spoken in tropical regions than in temperate areas."
https://theconversation.com/why-are-so-many-languages-spoken-in-some-places-and-so-few-in-others-116573

17 countries use more than 80% of their available water supplies every year, meaning droughts or increased water demand for agriculture and growing cities could leave them at risk of crisis, according to the World Resources Institute.
https://www.axios.com/countries-most-risk-water-crisis-f40f48f9-b02e-4e6b-99ed-164c5cb95335.html