Futurist Thomas Frey: Great communities are founded on great ideas. At the same time, our most admired communities become a magnet, attracting the brightest minds. The relational effect is clear: Bright minds make a community great, and great communities attract bright minds.
Continue reading… “City of the Future – Part One”
No. 1 – Olive Branch, MS
Over the last two decades Janice Turner has seen Olive Branch flourish. A small town became Mississippi’s ninth-largest city as thousands of people relocated across the state line from Memphis.
Continue reading… “Fastest Growing Cities in the U.S., 2011”
Brown recluse spider
The brown recluse are one of the most feared spiders in North America. And now the brown recluse – or Loxosceles reclusa – spider population is growing, and predicted to expand into the northern states as a result of climate change.
Continue reading… “Brown Recluse Spider Population Boom Result of Climate Change”
100th birthday party
Not long ago, turning 1oo years old jaws would have dropped. There would have been TV and newspaper reporters at Lonny Fried’s door. She would have been fussed over and given a big party. Turning 100 isn’t such a big deal anymore.
Continue reading… “America’s Population of 100 Year Olds is Booming”
Google Earth map that shows the different population sizes surrounding nuclear power plants.
Nature News along with Columbia University, has created a Google Earth map that shows the different population sizes surrounding nuclear power plants. They are trying to demonstrate the danger threshold of other nuclear plants worldwide, compared to the ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.
Lake County, Michigan has a 66% vacancy rate.
There are several counties in America, each with more than 10,000 homes, which have vacancy rates above 55%. The rate is above 60% in several.
Continue reading… “21st Century Ghost Towns in America”
This kind of family structure is found at all levels of income and education.
One in five of all American moms have kids who have different birth fathers, a new study shows. And when researchers look only at moms with two or more kids, that figure is even higher: 28 percent have kids with at least two different men.
Continue reading… “1 in 5 American Moms Have Kids with Multiple Birth Fathers”
The Motor City’s engine is dying. Detroit’s population shrank by more than 25% in the last decade, according to Census statistics reported in the New York Times. The city’s population fell to 713,777 in 2010, a drop of almost 240,000 residents. That’s 100,000 more than Katrina-ravaged New Orleans lost.
Continue reading… “Detroit’s Population Shrank 25% in Last Decade”
Hispanics are currently the fastest growing group.
In a surprising show of growth, Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states. Pulled by migration to the Sun Belt, America’s population center edged westward on a historic path to leave the Midwest.
Missouri has been at the U.S. center since 1980 but the geography is clearly shifting, with the West beginning to emerge as America’s new heartland.
America’s population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation’s politics and even the traditional notion of the country’s heartland — long the symbol of mainstream American beliefs and culture.
Continue reading… “The West is Becoming America’s New ‘Heartland’”
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National Geographic collected statistics on the world’s population (which currently stands at 7 billion). Do you know what they found? Apparently, the most average/typical/frequent person on this planet is male, 28-years-old and is Han Chinese in ethnicity (with 9,000,000 alive). But they didn’t stop there. Taking images from 190,000 of those fitting the criteria, researchers created a composite image to show what the most average person looks like.
Continue reading… “Who Is the World’s Most Typical Person?”
A coal truck drives through an railroad tressel near downtown Welch, W.Va.
Nestled within America’s once-thriving coal country, 87-year-old Ed Shepard laments a prosperous era gone by, when shoppers lined the streets and government lent a helping hand. Now, here as in one-fourth of all U.S. counties, West Virginia’s graying residents are slowly dying off.
Continue reading… “1 in 4 U.S. Counties Are Dying”
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