Unfortunately, human brains didn't evolve to understand exponents. We think sharks and bears are scary, when people are over 2000x more likely to die walking up stairs and over 100,000x more likely to die from a mosquito (with a disease).

News sites cause these distortions by allocating space according to scare-mongering and rage-bait clicks.

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Each article is read for numerical amounts in its topic domain.

The governing number selects a Greek-letter tier, Alpha through Lambda.

The article's type is set to the tier's point size. Sub-threshold stories are redacted.