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The Meaning of Life in the Midst of Large Numbers
In For the Time Being (1999), Annie Dillard (b. 1945) writes the following: “There is now, living in New York City, a church-sanctioned hermit, Theresa Mancuso, who wrote recently, ‘The thing we desperately need is to face the way it is’” … Continue reading
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Tagged death, demographics, existentialism, happiness, life, numbers, statistics, suicide
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Contemporary Life in Perspective
A stunning statistic (via Bloomberg Businessweek): The global median income is around $3 to $4 a day. That means that half of the world’s population lives on less than that. Here’s another stunning statistic (from the same source): According to … Continue reading
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Harper’s Index Has Been Catalogued, and is Now a Searchable Data Base!
How cool is this? Harper’s Magazine has made its popular Index searchable! You can now go to the Harper’s Index page here, type in, say, “evolution” or “Walt Whitman,” and find suprising and curious little stats about them. Sometimes you might even … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 