Wondering why everyone unfriended you on Facebook? Most likely it's because you're really offensive. But it might be because you're really depressing!

"David Wasserman, of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, recently calculated that 89 percent of Whole Foods stores... were in counties carried by Obama in 2008," reports Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Not only that! Whole Foods and Obama are also both Muslim.

What is up with the white people and their refusal to spawn these days? There is such a severe lack of pasty procreation that now, for the first time ever, the majority of new babies are being popped out by The Minorities. The white supremacists warned us about this, but nobody listened!

Has Anthony Weiner's horrendous experience with Twitter prompted other members of Congress to post fewer illiterate riffs than usual to their own Twitter accounts? Top number-crunchers are looking into this. And the early stats of congressional tweet volume following Weiner's accidental cock missive suggest that...…

The 2010 U.S. census figures have been released. The big picture, basically, is that men are living longer, marriage is downtrending, and the baby boom population is entering their twilight years.

LinkedIn, the professional social networking site that exists only so that it can email me every two days, has taken a page from OK Cupid's book and mined its user base for meme-worthy data! First up: "The top CEO names."

According to a research firm, more than half of all Americans age 12 and older—51% to be exact—are on Facebook. That's up from 8% of Americans just three years ago. [Edison Research]

Hollywood doesn't care about art—just money—so it's no surprise that many people are interested in knowing how much an Oscar nomination for Best Picture is worth in dollars. Finally, they have an answer.

43,869,800 people changed their relationship status to "single" on Facebook in 2010. But just 28,460,516 people changed their status to "in a relationship." So, there are like 15 million Facebook users out there for the taking.

Do you have an hour? Here is Hans Rosling's BBC Four documentary The Joy of Stats. He takes us through a number of studies he's done and the statistics to back up said claims, complete with pretty charts.

The first major findings from the 2010 census are in, and America has a population of 308,745,538, give or take a few. That's a 9.7% increase over the last decade. What else does the data tell us?

Central Park has seen a 45% increase in crime this year—including seven rapes, up from zero in 2009. The culprit? The bad economy, which apparently brings more people to the park, and then induces them to commit crimes.

It turns out the stereotypes about gay and straight men and women are kind of true. Data-obsessed dating site OKCupid sorted through what gay and straight users claim they like to compile the snazzy charts you'll find below.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has measured this recession against past ones and found it wanting. It will take more than twice as many layoffs before it counts as "harsh." Take that, doom-mongers!

Reading is up! But don't dream of crediting the Internet for that phenomenon. Dana Gioia, the Bush-appointed chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, would sooner give himself a papercut.