Rankings
Want a Wikipedia Entry? Be Born in Boston
Want to be notable enough to have a Wikipedia entry written about you someday (without doing something infamous to merit it)? If you were born […]
A Million Dollars Doesn’t Buy Much House in Boston
Boston has the dubious honor of being near the bottom of a new ranking: that of how much real estate $1,000,000 will buy you. The […]
How Much Snow Before America Cancels School?
Decades of national news have reinforced in each of us the maxim that one man’s snow flurry is another man’s natural disaster. We New Englanders […]
America Has Always Been Obsessed with State Rankings
Surf the internet, and you’ll find Americans ranking cities and states based on any and all criteria—best state to own a pet, most porn-obsessed state, […]
Boston Named Healthiest Metro Area
There are a ton of rankings out there, and the Boston area and the state of Massachusetts (and its neighbors to the north, most notably, […]
Massachusetts Ranks Second in Emergency Hospital Support Care
Between 1993 and 2003, the number of visits to emergency departments increased 26 percent (90.3 million to 113.9 million), yet during that same time period, […]
U.S. News and World Report Releases ‘Best Diets’ Rankings
Sorry Paleo radicals, animal lovers, and Kim Kardashian wannabes: Your diets are not up to par. On Monday, U.S. News and World Report released its annual […]
Boston Was One of the Most Buzzed About Topics On Facebook In 2013
The data crunchers at Facebook are winding down 2013 and looking back at the most shared—or as they say “talked about”—stories of 2013, and Boston […]
Not-So-Scientific Study Suggests Massachusetts Men Are Well-Endowed
Online condom store Condomania.com has used their rather unique data set to compile a ranking of average condom size (and by implication, average penis size) by […]
The Six Richest People in Massachusetts, According to Forbes
Forbes has released its annual list of the 400 richest Americans and surprise, surprise, the six wealthiest people in Massachusetts are … mostly the same […]
Rankings Split on Which School Is Better: MIT or Harvard University
Two separate university rankings that came out Tuesday have differing reports on where two Massachusetts universities fall on the list. In the coveted U.S. News & […]
Boston Named to Outside Magazine’s Best Places To Live List
If there’s a “healthy city” ranking that doesn’t include Boston, we’d love to see it. Because it doesn’t exist. Outside magazine took the American College of Sports Medicine’s […]
Emerson Ranked Most LGBT-Friendly School in the Country
The annual and prestigious Princeton Review came out this week and nearly every college in the nation was clambering—so much so that the Review’s website […]
Boston Schools Make ‘Healthiest Colleges in America’ List
Because Boston is a city of world-class hospitals and healthcare, it comes as no surprise that some of our area universities were on Greatist’s “25 […]
Massachusetts General Hospital Ranked No. 2 in Nation
For the second year in a row, Boston has two hospitals ranked in the top 10 on U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the best hospitals. […]