Denis Pelli (NYU professor of psychology and neuroscience) and Charles Bigelow (professor at RIT and graphic designer of, among other things, Wingdings) wrote in Seed Magazine about how the fraction of the world’s population who write and publish is increasing rapidly, with the endpoint of everyone being a publisher coming, suprisingly, in the next few [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Capsule Overviews of Humanity and Earth
A definition of humans (Homo Sapiens), according to the Wall Street Journal (not available online): Has a highly developed brain and a technological civilization. The species inhabits every continent and even low Earth orbit. Population is 6.7 billion and counting. This reminds me of the CIA World Factbook’s capsule overview of the Earth: Globally, the [...]
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