When you live in an isolated nation with a population roughly the size of Pittsburgh’s, accidentally lusting after a cousin is an all-too-real possibility.
Number of residents remaining in the town of Messex, Colorado. Neighbors David Ulibarri, 68, and Dixie Newman, 76, say they’re friendly but often don’t contact one another for weeks at a time (via Wall Street Journal)
Tuesday’s links flirt with danger — whether the threat is real or just dressed that way.
By the time Christopher Columbus died, there were only 500 million people on Earth. By 2050, the U.N. expects that number to swell to 9.3 billion. That said, I am the also the 4,985,259,234th person to be alive on this planet.
If this keeps up, things are going to get crowded.
Think your hometown is tiny? Welcome to Buford, Wyoming — the smallest town in America, and at least tied for the smallest town in the world.
A new report suggests that some 1.3 billion metric tons of food in the world is lost (on the production side of the food supply chain) or wasted (on the consumption side) each year. That’s about one-third of total edibles produced for humans.
Census workers only missed four people in the 2000 count.
Have you ever found yourself wondering, “Hey, I wonder what the mean center of the U.S. is?” NewsFeed sure has.
By 2030 the global population is set to reach over 8 billion and 26.4% of that population will be Muslim.
