I’d love to see endowment per student somehow calculated into that. I went to a school on this list with 1200 students at the time, and the endowment tracks with some much bigger schools.

That's a good idea, I'll take a look this weekend.

That’s super cool - much thanks! I’ve been looking for data like that.

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Wow. Thanks.

When Texas founded its 2 main universities in the early 19th century, huge tracts of nearly worthless land in West Texas were allocated to support the institutions. Guess where the largest oil deposits in America were found in the following years...

>derailments occurred pretty frequently

only in USA, about 1000 per year. In european countries it's single digits per year.

Compare that to other countries.

It’s for the whole UT system spanning multiple universities.

Well, I AM learning something today.

How is that?

That makes sense. I did not have the data for total miles driven by only trains with hazmat. I used the assumption that the proportion of trains carrying hazmat stayed constant from year to year (maybe the not the best idea looking back). The trend for total derailments is very similar to the adjusted.

Thanks for making this plot. I figured derailments occurred pretty frequently based on the constant reporting of them since the incident in East Palestine, but I had no data at all to back up that claim. It doesn’t seem they are happening all that more frequently, just that MSM has realized this is another type of disaster that drives traffic to their sites via clicks.

To be clear, not downplaying their significance or the hardship that individual communities experience as a result of them. It just feels incredibly cynical to all of a sudden begin reporting on every single one of them because they realized that “if it bleeds it leads” applies to trains as well as humans.

The title is misleading then, since this is all train derailment and not specifically hazmat train derailment.

This does not account for impact, only total derailments. The accident in Ohio may have been the worse effects on the environment.

Half the ivies are investment companies with an adjunct faculty attached.

This is for hazmat train derailments up to 2022 (does not include 2023 data). The FRA also provides data for all derailments which follows a similar trend. The data does not account how much chemicals, oils, etc. was on each train, only # of derailments.

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All trains in the United States including ones without hazmat cargo. There's also total derailment data.

Why did you skip most of the public universities? The University of Texas has an endowment 2nd only to Harvard.

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/sep/19/french-bulldog-battersea-dogs-home-celebrity-pet-health-problems.

Already happening.

Look at my name I’m kinda reactionary but that’s because a lot of redditors are ironic. I guess tho people are less likely to fuck with this poll versus one that’s like believing in Santa claus

Except the East Palastine train wouldnt be counted here as it wasnt designated hazmat.... so unclear how much poison is really falling off the rails

The chart has no info for march though, you’re comparing different dates.

And the data presented here is about as reliable...kind of the point of my original comment. Guess I should've added the /s to my comment for the dense Redditors.

WashU: 10% acceptance rate, endowment $12.25 billion