Early days yet

"With 250 babies born each minute, how many people can the Earth sustain?" It's a perennial question and one the authors seek to address in one form or another, be it Soylent Green or Dr. Manhattan.
It's Dick Smith's drive to do something about population growth in Australia. We may have more room than other countries but there is a consequence to taking in more people or having larger families.

Deaths between 2007 and 2016 were mainly caused by skin cancer, followed by falling and road/rail crash. In this list, I am mainly interested in #2 because I wonder how those 19,303 people fell. Getting skin cancer is a hazard of living in our climate and not getting regular skin checks, and we're fairly familiar with the car crashes that feature on the news; fatal or not. There's been the odd pedestrian on the footpath whose been cleaned up.
But that's in Australia. The biggest killers globally are Ischaemic heart disease, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The highest grossing movie in 2018 was Black Panther with Avengers: Infinity War in second place. I'm wearing the t-shirt but still haven't seen the film.

Big Bang Theory is, in the ordinary way, the most popular TV show but the return of Roseanne pipped it in that it has nearly five million more viewers on average (if you count the nineties fans)

God's Plan by Drake shows me conclusively how out of touch I am with the charts. I mean, I know who Drake is (just) but how did a duck get a straight up spiritual or hymnal past me as a #1

The Greatest Showman motion picture cast recording is the largest selling album - if they still call them that. It's got our own Hugh Jackman in (our own in that, not only is he Australian, he studied at both UTS and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, part of Edith Cowan University)

A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath is the most produced play, despite or because of its audacious title.

The biggest star in the universe is now declared to be UY Scuti

Science also discovered a bigger dinosaur, an older animal, another branch of (hybrid) human, the oldest known human drawing, a subglacial lake on Mars, organic molecules on Mars, the first ever fossilised snake embryo, the exact source of a neutrino, the brightest object from the Universe's infancy, 13 billion year old oxygen which may reveal the oldest stars in the Universe

The bestseller on Amazon is a 2011 science fiction novel brought back in popularity by release of the film Ready Player One. Regardless of Jeff Bezos' vast wealth, I would prefer a book that was first published in 2018 so not, ahem, 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' or The Handmaid's Tale either. Or is Good Housekeeping using a different yardstick? Actually over on Amazon (!) the bestseller is Becoming - Michelle Obama