… claiming she will split 50% royalties, the same deal as “with any artist I collab with”
Month: April 2023 (Page 3 of 5)
The reasons for these disparities go beyond modern policy differences and extend back to events that predate not only the American party system but the advent of shotguns, revolvers, ammunition cartridges, breach-loaded rifles and the American republic itself. The geography of gun violence — and public and elite ideas about how it should be addressed — is the result of differences at once regional, cultural and historical. Once you understand how the country was colonized — and by whom — a number of insights into the problem are revealed.
Last Updated on June 7, 2023
India will overtake China to become the most populous country in the world by the end of this week, the United Nations has said.
India’s population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people by the end of April, the new data shows.
Elsewhere » UN News / The Guardian / FlowingData / The Japan Times /
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A different UN body last week predicted that India would overtake China by the middle of this year.
The Asian nations have accounted for more than a third of the global population for over 70 years.
Previously » Reuters / The Guardian / Al Jazeera /
Shortly after the United Nations said Wednesday India remains on track to become the world’s most populous nation – surpassing China by mid-2023 – Beijing hit back boasting of a better trained workforce with nearly 900 million people working towards the development of the country. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson was quoted by news agency PTI as stressing on skilled labour and said: “I want to tell you that population dividend does not depend on quantity but also quality.”India became the world’s most populous country with 2.9 million more people than China.
“China’s population is over 1.4 billion. Those in the working age is close to 900 million and that group of populations is 10.5 years of education on average… our population dividend has not disappeared and our talent dividend is booming and the impetus is strong for development,” Wang Wenbin said.
India is expected to be the most populous country in the world by the middle of this year and overtake China, according to the latest data from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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Last Updated on April 25, 2023
There were 619, 000 malaria deaths in the world in 2021.
Africa’s most populous nation [Nigeria] is also the world’s most affected by malaria, accounting for 32% of global deaths, according to the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) report (pdf). The country records 95,000 malaria deaths in children aged under five every year, largely due to the high cost of treating the disease.
It’s estimated that the disease costs Nigeria’s economy, Africa’s biggest, $1.1 billion a year.
The Ferrari great has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013.
The family has guarded his privacy since, with access limited to those closest to him and little information given about his condition.
The latest edition of Die Aktuelle ran a front cover with a picture of a smiling Schumacher and the headline promising ‘Michael Schumacher, the first interview’.
Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Kurt Vonnegut to a headmaster who had just burned all the copies of a particular book by Kurt in the school’s furnace
Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Kurt Vonnegut at Hay Festival, 2014
Jon Haidt, author and social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, raised a few alarm bells when he laid out the evidence that an epidemic of mental illness began around 2012, simultaneously in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Problem with Jon Stewart (via YouTube) looks at how the corporate profit system is designed to punish the workers.
Generation Z, born from 1995 onwards, has been raised with “moral dependency,” argues social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. As the first generation to get social media at age 13, Gen Z has been denied the independence that previous generations enjoyed — the “free play,” the time spent off devices.
In general, Haidt argues that this generation is more fragile and sensitive to conflict, insults, and exclusion, making them less adept at solving problems on their own. And Haidt believes that overprotection has made them weaker and easily discouraged. That’s why teaching critical thinking and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may be the key to helping young people question their initial interpretations and improve their mental health. Haidt also discusses identity politics, differentiating between “common humanity” and “common enemy” approaches. Fostering a sense of commonality rather than division, Haidt argues, is essential for creating inclusive and diverse environments in educational institutions and society at large.
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is the author of The Righteous Mind and The Happiness Hypothesis.
Last Updated on June 7, 2023
Under the proposal:
- Households earning less than $28,000 a year would pay a fixed charge of $15 a month on their electric bills in Edison and PG&E territories and $24 a month in SDG&E territory.
- Households with annual income from $28,000 – $69,000 would pay $20 a month in Edison territory, $34 a month in SDG&E territory and $30 a month in PG&E territory.
- Households earning from $69,000 – $180,000 would pay $51 a month in Edison and PG&E territories and $73 a month in SDG&E territory.
- Those with incomes above $180,000 would pay $85 a month in Edison territory, $128 a month in SDG&E territory and $92 a month in PG&E territory.
Last Updated on May 5, 2023
This is why French’s Ketchup and Mustard are in my fridge.
The problem is, Musk’s plan doesn’t seem to be working as well as he’s saying. Twitter’s web traffic dropped by nearly 8 percent last month compared to the year before, and has been dropping for the past three months year over year, according to new estimates from data intelligence firm SimilarWeb. This directly contradicts Musk’s claims that usage is up. In terms of Twitter’s main line of income, advertising, outside data also conflicts with Musk’s claims that all is well. Multiple reports over the past few months have shown that top brands are continuing to leave the platform since Musk took over.
While Twitter, Inc no longer exists, I’m somewhat surprised Musk didn’t name his new shell company S3XY Corp. in an effort to gain yet more attention from his followers. But perhaps he is already board with that Trumpian scheme.
Elsewhere » Washington Post / Mashable / Washington Post / Bloomberg /
Laval is set to become the first municipality in Quebec to ban the installation of new natural gas appliances
The stakes are high. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts a potential quadrupling in demand for critical minerals by 2040.
In response to earthquakes that struck areas of Türkiye and Syria on February 6, the Government of Yukon is announcing support for people affected by this devastating natural disaster.
Hook them when they are young.
Candy cigarettes anyone?
One in five three- and four-year-olds in the UK have their own mobile phone, according to Ofcom research, and the rapid rise of phone use by very young children has brought the issue into the foreground as a public health question.
Hans Nichols, writing in Axios »
A conservative group is offering a new service that texts “Woke Alerts” straight to the phones of grocery shoppers who want to know which brands are accused of taking political positions that are offensive to the right.
Meanwhile »
Paste » Woke Free Ultra Right Bud Light knockoff is $35 for a six-pack
It’s a Bud Light knockoff that costs more than three times as much as actual Bud Light (a 6-pack of Bud Light 16oz tallboys cost $9.99 at my local packy today; these are only 12oz cans).
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity.
The number of hours people sleep is at least as important as our blood pressure, smoking status, diet, and exercise habits.
The evidence shows that people whose lives are synchronized with their body clock are less fatigued, have better moods, maintain healthier weights, gain more benefit from their medications, think more clearly, and have improved long-term health outcomes.
Sleep itself has cycles, in which the brain and body move through phases, marked by varying brain activity. In the deepest phases of sleep, the brain waves are slowest. The lighter phases have more rapid bursts of activity.
Our most intense dreams usually happen during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, when brain activity, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure all increase, the eyes move rapidly, and muscles are limp. Scientists believe dreams in REM and non-REM sleep have different content – the more vivid or bizarre dreams usually happen during REM stages.
BBC’s Simona Weinglass explains how criminal networks used Premier League sponsorship to target and defraud unsuspecting football fans.
This is comforting.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, swears in Dr. Makenzie Lystrup as director of Goddard Space Flight Center, as NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks on Thursday, April 6, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.
A top newly appointed NASA official has taken an unconventional oath to assume charge of her duties.
Makenzie Lystrup, who became the first woman in NASA’s history to be appointed the director of Goddard Space Flight Center on Thursday, took her oath on a copy of Carl Sagan’s 1994 book Pale Blue Dot instead of the conventional practice of using the Bible.
While many officeholders across the country have placed their hands on books by Dr Suess, the US Constitution, copies of the Quran or other documents, this seems to be the first time someone was sworn in on a book by Sagan.
“Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” is a 1994 book by the astronomer inspired by the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe from a distance of about six billion kilometres.
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