more people in the world live in cities than in rural environments

Quote :

"The Industrial Revolution did nothing at first to make urban life easier, but it did provide jobs—lots of them. With the new factories of the industrial age that began in the late 18th century was born an entirely new urban era. Peasants left the land in their multitudes to live in new cities, first in the north of England, then all over Europe and North America. By 1900, 13% of the world's population had become urban. The latest leap, from 13% to 50% in just 107 years, also owes something to science and technology: improvements in medicine, coupled with new knowledge about ways to avoid disease, have enabled more and more people to live together without succumbing as once they did to diarrhoea, tuberculosis, cholera and other pestilences."

http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9070726

12/30/2007 3:03:52 PM

the ECONOMIST!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? Who on god's green earth reads THE ECONOMIST?!!?!?

12/30/2007 3:04:52 PM

smrt d00ds

12/30/2007 3:07:57 PM

(I get the podcast updated daily)

12/30/2007 3:08:32 PM

reading is the new listening

12/30/2007 3:09:09 PM

interesting, this report coincides with the report that 2007 was the hottest year on record

i wonder if they're related.....


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TR6ASG0&show_article=1

12/30/2007 3:10:18 PM

Quote :

"the ECONOMIST!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? Who on god's green earth reads THE ECONOMIST?!!?!? "

the Economist is a fucking awesome publication.

12/30/2007 3:12:51 PM

yes, yes it is

12/30/2007 3:28:43 PM

top 2 magazines I try to read:
The Economist
The Nation

12/30/2007 3:29:40 PM

this makes me feel old

its one of my top 5 bookmarks along with myspace, facebook, soccernet and ebay

12/30/2007 4:20:04 PM

The Economist is great

I'm sad that my subscription has lapsed
and I can't afford another

12/30/2007 4:31:41 PM

The ECONOMIST?!?!?

12/30/2007 4:32:17 PM

One of my clients has a subscription to the Economist, so I frequently catch myself reading it.

12/30/2007 5:25:59 PM

12/30/2007 5:51:45 PM

Quote :

"the Economist is a fucking awesome publication."

12/30/2007 5:55:11 PM

Oooh, Look At Me, I Read The Economist!
BY GLEN SCHRAFT

Eeeeeeuuuuuwww! The Economist says! The Economist says! I read The Economist! Aren't I cool? Aren't you impressed with me?

What do you read? Time? Newsweek? Those are for people who can't handle a real news magazine like the one I read. That's because you're not as smart or sophisticated as me.

On weekends, I like to sit out on my porch in my wicker chair with my bifocals and my subscription copy of The Economist. Then, when I go to a professor's wine-and-cheese party later that night, I can casually mention all the fancy stuff I read about NASA and Venezuela and Gen. Pervez Musharraf in my fancy magazine and impress everybody.

Question: Do you think I'm smarter than everyone else because I read The Economist, or do I read The Economist because I'm smarter than everyone else? Now, there's a conundrum! I should mail that one in to The Economist and see what they think!

Oh, no! My brain just got larger! Help! I need more knowledge to fill up the new brains! Get me the new issue of The Economist at once! I can't live if I'm even remotely unaware of anything that is happening in the universe! I must have my weekly issue of The Economist, or I risk de-evolving into the sort of mouth-breathing rabble by which I am surrounded daily!

I say, old chap, here comes Lord Smartingford of Braintonshire! Shall we dine upon a nice cup of tea, then? We can discuss the economy, and the global situ-AYYY-tion, and ever so many other matters! I am so very versed in such matters, reading as do I The Economist, just as soon as the postman delivers it by the estate, don't you know. I find that only the right cracking coverage of The E-CON-omist keeps me jolly-well informed and all that, wouldn't you agree? Mmm, yes, I did think you would!

Fuckin' prick.

12/30/2007 5:57:28 PM

12/30/2007 7:32:32 PM

Ah, Lord Happy Cat. Care to join us for tea, good sir?

12/30/2007 7:33:25 PM

12/30/2007 9:35:25 PM