Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
Human Stupidity Index
A public index that compresses humanity’s collective self-defeating behavior into one score, currently 48.8.
Why it surfacedIts deliberately blunt premise is backed by a surprisingly legible method: six pillars, fourteen public indicators, explicit weights, and source citations ranging from the Doomsday Clock to NASA, SIPRI, WHO, and V-Dem. The result is part civic dashboard, part provocation, with a downloadable JSON feed and a planned second version that invites new data sources.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.