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It’s been nearly a year and a half since I’ve taken a break from near-daily blogging, and we all need some time off eventually. I’ll be spending a little over a week in Japan, where nearly 130 million people live along thin slivers of coastline. I’m very much looking forward to it. When I return, I’m sure [...]∞
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Ian Sample, reporting for the Guardian: “Everybody in Eurasia can trace their linguistic ancestry back to a group, or groups, of people living around 15,000 years ago, probably in southern Europe, as the ice sheets were retreating,” said Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at Reading University. Linguists have long debated the idea of an ancient [...]∞
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Richard Florida, writing at the Atlantic Cities: Wyoming tops the list with an increase of nearly 80 percent. North Dakota is second and Rhode Island third, both with increases of roughly 70 percent. Hawaii, Vermont, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Oregon, and South Dakota round out the top 10. There’s a surprising link between overall suicide rates [...]∞
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Emily Badger, reporting for the Atlantic Cities: Segregated regions – by race as well as skills – have slower rates of income growth and property value appreciation. And this isn’t just true for minority families stuck in segregated pockets of inner-city poverty. It’s true for everyone, the suburbs and city alike. ∞∞
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A bunch of economists and a blogger are trying to dissect the riddle of why metropolitan population density has fallen in the United States. Robert Shiller (yes, that Robert Shiller) seems to have unknowingly kicked off the whole thing when he wrote an essay a few weeks ago in which he said housing prices have [...]
