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Why is LA California's biggest city? Why is the state's capital Sacramento, only the 7th biggest city? Why is SF so important despite being on hills? Why did San Jose pass it in po...
What's the biggest Mississippi city? Chicago! Why? Because of an ice age water stream If you understand this, you can understand why Chicago is so huge today And more importantl...
Why are tropical waters so transparent? Because they're dead. This is connected to why some scientists fear global warming could make Europe *colder* And freeze 80% of all humans...
Can Brazil become a superpower? It will be an uphill battle despite the heroic efforts of the Brazilians https://t.co/ivfEBGmLGR
We discussed India's 1.4B people earlier this week, but China also has 1.4B ppl Why? Is it a coincidence these 2 population giants are neighbors? Why do most of its 1.4B ppl live...
India just passed China as the most populous country in the world. Why? Because of the biggest accident in history Look at where people live in India. What's that band up north?...
What are the most surprising facts about the Amazon river, watershed, and rainforest? Here are the 9 craziest ones I found: https://t.co/vD6Xcyq0gG
The tiny island of Java has more population than all of Russia More than all of Japan Why? https://t.co/mrkRzU5uCx
Why do Brazilians speak Portuguese and not Spanish? Because of the rotation of the Earth and the distance between Puerto Rico and Cape Verde: https://t.co/p9O0ymPg7d
There are few threats of total human extermination: 1. A meteor hitting Earth 2. An alien civilization 3. A misaligned Artificial General Intelligence Only #3 is possible in the n...
Here are some reasons why we're facing an underpopulation crisis, and some ways to solve it: 1. Conventional wisdom claims it's all about sanitation & money: • Less child deaths =...
Some polls I ran on here got crazy results. They reveal ppl's attitude about the future, but also key communication & design principles: 1. Ppl think it's bad to live forever http...