population

Yesterday I watched a good talk on TED in which Hans Rosling discusses the impact of religion on population growth: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html Of course, he comes down to say: very little. There are other factors that are important and that we can see...

Interesting paper with a collection of studies on health, technology and economic performance. How did the West become rich? Amartya Sen,an economist and recently President of the American Economics Association, has pointed out that an important marker of the success of an economy is the...

Rising consumption of natural resources means that humans began "eating the planet" on 9 October, a study suggests. The date symbolised the day of the year when people's demands exceeded the Earth's ability to supply resources and absorb the demands placed upon it. The figures' authors said...

A study published in the journal Science ranks the U.S. 2nd to last in a survey of 34 countries in the acceptance by the population of evolution. Article in LiveScience.com... http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060810_evo_rank.html Interesting statistics: What gives? Maybe this? [/SIZE]

I was going to post this in the silly Neo-Nazis Thread but I think it deserves it's own silly thread. I submit this paper on America's Military Population. A very, very well done paper, IMO. Full of useful tidbits about the ethnic, cultural and sexual makeup of our military. What most...

One of my major beefs with Christianity.....Christian sects generally agree that "salvation" is conditional on having some sort of acceptance of Jesus' message. In the Catholic tradition, this involves baptism, then living one's life in accordance with church teachings on avoiding sin and doing...

Human population needs something to keep it under control. The hard question is; what would be the best way? Or what way is prefered?

From the Washinton Post story: An Afgan prison or US custody at Guantanamo? A Saudi prison or US custody at Guantanamo? A Yemini prison or US custody at Guantanamo?

NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Programs on the Discovery Channel and PBS have sparked fresh interest in the prehistoric peopling of the New World. Now, for the first time, we have a realistic estimate of how many ancients made that ice age trek across the long-lost land bridge from Asia to...

The world population is currently 6.4 billion and change. The earth is of finite size, but population continues to grow exponentially. This is something that personally worries and bothers me...will growth taper off? Will we find a way to keep sustaining new millions of people every year...

The world's population is expected to rise from the current 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050, the UN says. Virtually all the growth will be in the developing world, according to a report by the UN Population Division. By contrast, the population of developed countries will remain almost...

On another forum I frequent this topic came up, in regards to developments in medicine that allow people to choose the gender of their children (it is possible now to screen before implantation for gender, as well as other genetic issues [CF, etc]) And the discussion turned to China (with their...

In the space of a few days beginning on 18 March 2003, the Cuban authorities arrested scores of dissidents in targeted sweeps. Some were subsequently released, but 75 of them were subjected to hasty and manifestly unfair trials in early April and quickly sentenced to long prison terms of up to...

Growth rates are tricky things to work with, especially population growth rates. They *never* grow at a smooth rate and often have prolonged periods of negative growth. Here's an illustration. We start with 2 people, Adam & Eve, who appeared around 4004 BC according to a literalist's Biblical...