Interesting fact.
Apr. 4th, 2021 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI just ran the numbers and 1/1000 of the world's population lives in NYC. A little more, actually. That's just within the city, it's a bit more than twice that if you count the entire metro area.
****************
Net gains: how India trawlers’ plastic catch is helping to rebuild roads
Why Animals Don’t Get Lost
Women Artists and the Looking Glass
New Yorkers with previous marijuana convictions will have their records wiped clean under the new legalization law
Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years
A Chinese ‘Auntie’ Went on a Solo Road Trip. Now, She’s a Feminist Icon.
Georgia man who was paid in 91,000 greasy pennies saved from ‘coinundrum’ by Coinstar
USDA drops Trump plan to cut food stamps for 700,000 Americans
Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought?
It's possible to reach herd immunity, then lose it. Repeatedly. Here's what you can do to help prevent that from happening
Getting One Vaccine Is Good. How About Mix-and-Match? (Interesting!)
The Threat That COVID-19 Poses Now
The Lives of Others (Fascinating! Content note, though: one suicide)
Black families still reeling from verdicts in police brutality cases warn justice is not promised in Chauvin trial
Net gains: how India trawlers’ plastic catch is helping to rebuild roads
Why Animals Don’t Get Lost
Women Artists and the Looking Glass
New Yorkers with previous marijuana convictions will have their records wiped clean under the new legalization law
Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years
A Chinese ‘Auntie’ Went on a Solo Road Trip. Now, She’s a Feminist Icon.
Georgia man who was paid in 91,000 greasy pennies saved from ‘coinundrum’ by Coinstar
USDA drops Trump plan to cut food stamps for 700,000 Americans
Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought?
It's possible to reach herd immunity, then lose it. Repeatedly. Here's what you can do to help prevent that from happening
Getting One Vaccine Is Good. How About Mix-and-Match? (Interesting!)
The Threat That COVID-19 Poses Now
The Lives of Others (Fascinating! Content note, though: one suicide)
Black families still reeling from verdicts in police brutality cases warn justice is not promised in Chauvin trial
no subject
Date: 2021-04-05 11:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-08 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-08 08:29 am (UTC)As a city/region we are known for our outsize influence. Because there are so many of us.