MOScout Sunday6: Corn - Trucks - Overdoses - TikTok and more...

Let’s start with maps…

1. 8% of Missouri land is corn fields.

Source: Cereal Secrets.

2. Two-thirds of Missouri vehicles are trucks.

Source: Washington Post.

3. Southeast Missouri is infected with the south’s lower life expectancy.

Source: LA Times.

4. Partially related to that lower life expectancy, overdoses still elevated in US.

Source: WSJ.

5-6. Another emerging health risk: loneliness.

Source: Surgeon General.

Source: Chartr.

7. Drop in OB/GYN program enrollment where states have banned abortions.

Source: Axios.

8. College enrollment overall declining.

Source: Tradingpedia.

9. TikTok to kill TV? “The younger the viewer, the more they prefer TikTok to television. Stranded on a desert island with Wi-Fi and only one screen, two-thirds of Gen Z say they’d choose TikTok over the entirety of television and streaming. Put another way, writers shouldn’t be picketing outside studios in Los Angeles, but Bytedance HQ in Beijing. Also, the culprit isn’t some cartoon-villain studio exec, but your nephew who’s never had cable and prefers to spend 45 minutes scrolling TikTok to paying $6.99 a month to watch The Witcher. He’s never heard of Stephen Colbert.”

Source: Scott Galloway.