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People today are living longer, healthier, and happier lives than ever before

In a video published by Bill Gates on his Youtube channel, originally titled “Humanity is fighting back against the Grim Reaper”, Steven Pinker, the Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, popular science author, and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University explains why people today are living longer, healthier, and happier lives than ever before. …

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What would happen if humans became extinct?

Pripyat amusement park after Chernobyl disaster

In the last few thousand years, humans have had a powerful impact on Earth. Within a geological blink of an eye, we exploded out of Africa to colonize virtually every inhabitable space on the planet. We dammed the rivers, we domesticated animals, deforested many areas, changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and the seas… the …

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If 100 People Lived on Earth Today

If the population of the world was only 100 people, instead of 7.4 billion, while the statistics remaining the same, what would today’s society look like? A video published by GOOD Magazine (produced and written by Gabriel Reilich, animation by Jake Infusino) answers that question.

Human Population Through Time (Video)

The Earth is getting more crowded every single day. As of August 2016, the world population was estimated at 7.4 billion. Our planet is already overpopulated, and despite the growth of the population begun slowing, the situation will be worse: the United Nations estimates it will further increase to 11.2 billion in the year 2100. …

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Top 10 City Facts

Since the Neolithic revolution, humanity is building cities. Here are the top ten amazing facts about cities all around the world.

Ava, the bronze-age woman

A woman’s face, who buried over 3,700 years ago in Northern Scotland has been reconstructed by a team of archaeologists and forensic artists led by Maya Hoole. It was the bronze-age at that time in the area. In 1987 the remains of an individual (a woman between 18-22 years old) buried over 3,700 years ago …

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Emma Morano, The Oldest Living Human

As of May 26, 2016, Emma Morano, a 116-Year-Old woman from Italy is the oldest living human in the world (currently the oldest living man is Yisrael Kristal, who is 113, an Auschwitz Survivor now Living in Israel). Update: Emma Morano has died on April 15, 2017, at the age of 117 years and 137 days.