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Canada is the second largest country on Earth

2023-07-01 /

The Earth’s 10 largest countries (as calculated by total area) »

  1. Russia » 17,098,246 km² (6,601,670 sq mi)
  2. Canada » 9,984,670 km² (3,855,100 sq mi)
  3. China » 9,596,961 km² (3,705,407 sq mi)
  4. United States » 9,525,067 km² (3,677,649 sq mi)
  5. Brazil » 8,515,767 km² (3,287,956 sq mi)
  6. Australia » 7,692,024 km² (2,969,907 sq mi)
  7. India » 3,287,263 km² (1,269,219 sq mi)
  8. Argentina » 2,780,400 km² (1,073,500 sq mi)
  9. Kazakhstan » 2,724,900 km² (1,052,100 sq mi)
  10. Algeria » 2,381,741 km² (919,595)

Source » Wikipedia

National Geographic lays off it’s remaining staff writers

2023-06-29 /

This should not come as a surprise to anyone who first heard NatGeo had been sold to Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox back in 2015, and then to WDC. For these massive corporations, it’s all about profits and shareholder value over everyone and everything else.

WSJ »

On Wednesday, the Washington-based magazine that has surveyed science and the natural world for 135 years reached another difficult passage when it laid off all of its last remaining staff writers.

The cutback — the latest in a series under owner Walt Disney Co. — involves some 19 editorial staffers in all, who were notified in April that these terminations were coming.

NYC drivers will soon pay congestion pricing tolls to drive their vehicles in the most visited parts of Manhattan

2023-06-28 /

Set to begin as soon as the spring of 2024, congestion pricing will reduce traffic in crowded areas, improve air quality, and provide critical funding for public transit.

A first for the US, this will bringing New York City into line with places like London, Singapore, and Stockholm.


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NY Times | AP via LA Times

Why pedestrian deaths are skyrocketing in US, while European pedestrian deaths have been declining for years [updated]

2023-06-27 /

NY Magazine »

If that estimate sticks, U.S. walkers will have experienced a stunning 77 percent increase in deaths since 2010, rising at a rate more than three times faster than the rest of the traveling public.

Also » NPR

VOX »

The roads were already getting deadlier for pedestrians before 2020, but the pandemic turbocharged the trend. In 2021, 7,624 pedestrians were killed in the United States, a 13 percent increase from the year before, when 6,721 pedestrians were killed. Between 2010 and 2021, the new GHSA report says, pedestrian fatalities increased 77 percent.

 

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