But this does raise an interesting question, though: over the long arc of human history, how many people have ever lived? The unique and powerful visualization above, from the team at Our World in Data, highlights how many humans have ever lived, and how much of humanity is currently aliv...
learned about their intelligence or, if you've been lucky, to see them for yourselves on safari in the wild. But I wonder how many of you have been truly, utterly terrified by
Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.
The realisation of what the source is for many organisations is illustrated well in Walt Kelly’s Pogo cartoon. Many leaders will only see one way out, which is to copy what others do or what worked in the past (which rarely makes you a leader in any field). Others find themselves wher...
An estimate of the total number of persons who have ever lived on earth depends on two factors: 1) the length of time humans have been on earth; and 2) the average size of human populations at different periods. According to the United Nations' "Determinants and Consequences of Population ...
the new cloning technologies have sparked many ethical debates among scientists, politicians and the general public. several governments have considered or enacted legislation to slow down, limit or ban cloning experiments outright. it is clear that cloning will be a part of our lives in the future...
In the US, where the average annual income is around $50,000, saving a trillion bucks (with no outgoings) would take 20,000,000 years. 37 million years, 20 million years... That's a lot longer than humans have even existed, yo. ...
Humans have existed for a long time. In the hundreds of thousands of years we've been walking the planet, our numbers have grown. How is it that only about 200,000 years ago a single woman became the great-grandmother of us all? Shouldn't human history go further back than that?
What many get wrong about breathing About Michael Michael J. Breus, Ph.D.,is a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist. He is one of only 168 psychologists in the world to have taken and passed the Sleep Medicine Boards without going to Medical School. He...
While you can find so many amazing foods plus some of the greatest supplements I’ve ever seen available for finding the elixir of youth, you still have to meet up your basic health needs to allow them to work. Questions to consider: am I obtaining seven to nine hours of rest? Am I ...