Canadian Politics Today
Beyond Politics => General Discussion => Topic started by: JMT on February 05, 2017, 12:51:27 pm
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In a world of fake news and idiots, I think it would be good to have a place to discuss some positive things, like this:
http://www.livescience.com/57748-physicists-see-single-atoms-in-nanoparticle.html
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Go here and click on "Your life in numbers" at the top to see how things have changed since you were born.
http://humanprogress.org/blog
You can even compare against other countries.
Other than that, check out these charts: http://www.businessinsider.com/human-progress-charts-2011-3
No doubt that this is thanks to knowledge and open societies (free trade, movements of smart people) rather than prayer, crusades and inquisitions.
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Go here and click on "Your life in numbers" at the top to see how things have changed since you were born.
They call an increase from 2800 to 3400 calories/person/day an improvement? I think we are just becoming fat lazy slobs.
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yes we are spoiled with an abundance of calories and yet we still complain!