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- Environmental summits lose value as past pledges go unmet
- "“We don’t need the heads of state here, frankly,” Pat Mooney, executive director of ETC Group, an Ottawa-based environmental organization, said from Rio. “Quite honestly the grandstanding around some of these treaties, it was nonsense and we knew it was nonsense at the time.”"
- Cupid's Arrow Turns Digital
- The pros and cons of online dating based on an interview with one of the authors of a meta-analysis of studies on the topic.
- New Study Says You Don't Want To Work With The Opposite Sex
- "most workers were much more likely to choose to collaborate with someone of the same gender. Men were as likely to do so as women."
- Out Of Africa
- "The growth in the sub-Saharan African population is projected to be larger than the entire population of China. The population of Europe is expected to barely change over the period, going from 738 million in 2010 to 702 million in 2060. The population of northern America – the United States and Canada – is expected to grow from 345 million to 466 million. Put together, Europe and Northern America go from 1.08 billion to 1.17 billion. Again, the increase in the the sub-Saharan African population is projected to be larger than this entire region."