That’s the percentage of internet users who say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to or view it at a later time. This finding, based on a Pew Internet Project survey, represents an increase from the 7% of internet users who reported podcast downloading in February-April 2006 — though few report downloading podcasts with great frequency.

That’s the percentage of Americans who think young people do not have as strong a sense of right and wrong as they did 50 years ago. While nostalgia for the old days is far from new, this finding is substantially more negative than those recorded decades ago.

That’s the percentage of American adults who oppose making it more difficult for women to obtain abortions — 35% favor such a move.

That’s the percentage of the public who could name the current vice president, Dick Cheney, in a recent Pew survey; In 1989, 74% of the public were able to identify Dan Quayle as the vice president.

That’s the number of states that have passed or are considering proposals condemning the 2005 federal law requiring states to adopt uniform security features for driver’s licenses and to verify the identity of all driver’s license applicants. Last week, two states, Montana and Washington, passed laws rejecting the standards and ratcheting up pressure on Congress to repeal them.