quokka70
quokka70 t1_je3imlx wrote
Reply to comment by BasvanS in Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion by madrid987
The UN thinks it might be 9.5 billion...or more than 12.
https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Line/900
Prediction is hard.
quokka70 t1_je3ian0 wrote
Reply to comment by Norwester77 in Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion by madrid987
And that's the absolute change.
The growth rate, relative to the population at the time, topped out in 1963.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-growth-rates?tab=chart
quokka70 t1_je3hkp5 wrote
Reply to comment by SrpskaZemlja in Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion by madrid987
You are right. The article is saying that the population will peak in 2050, although its headline, which is gibberish, mentions the growth rate peaking, which is what u/ExoticSalamander4 was talking about.
Many years ago I heard a TV reporter say that inflation was accelerating at an increasing rate of speed. I'm not sure how many derivatives that is, but almost certainly more than intended.
quokka70 t1_jbi34uv wrote
Reply to comment by Hot_Let7611 in TIL the largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, is larger than the planet of Mercury by Jugales
Ganymede was a Trojan chap. As in many Greek stories the next step was "and then Zeus got horny".
quokka70 t1_ja4p6oj wrote
Reply to comment by Blackbirds_Garden in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Although the first edition started appearing in 1884, that was only the section A-Ant. The whole thing was done only in 1928.
Tolkien worked on parts of the first edition in 1919-1920.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#History
quokka70 t1_ja4oh7e wrote
Reply to comment by PianoCharged in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
"Work began on the dictionary in 1857..."
quokka70 t1_ix8u4xa wrote
Reply to comment by Fetlocks_Glistening in TIL North Korea has multiple political parties. As of the latest election in 2019, three parties (WPK, Korean Social Democratic Party, and Chondoist Chongu Party) and one organization (Chongryon) are represented in the Supreme People's Assembly, the country's unicameral parliament. by blihk
Oh, there's someone out there who believes it, or chooses to allow themselves to be duped because they are a credulous tankie and the country has "Democratic" in the name and how could a nation of heroic socalism and Juche be anything but a worker's paradise and Lenin said everything works by Democratic Centralism.
quokka70 t1_irfsg59 wrote
quokka70 t1_irflfat wrote
Reply to comment by DrEnter in TIL A 2017 study found that the introduction of iodized salt in 1924 raised the IQ for the one-quarter of the population most deficient in iodine. by kstinfo
I can't find anything about iodized water or fluoridated salt with a quick look on Wikipedia.
Lots of countries iodize salt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt#In_public_health_initiatives
The article on fluoride therapy doesn't mention table salt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_therapy#Water_fluoridation
quokka70 t1_je4vx5i wrote
Reply to comment by Norwester77 in Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion by madrid987
Yes, you're right.