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You know, we say, half the world is living in cities.
The economist Joe Cortright did the math and he found out that those four miles plus those 11 minutes adds up to fully three and a half percent of all income earned in the region.
So the average Manhattanite is consuming gasoline at the rate the rest of the nation hasn't seen since the '20s, consuming half of the electricity of Dallas.
Canadian cities, they consume half the gasoline of American cities.
The Canadian cities like Vancouver, where again, they're burning half the fuel.
And then it's usually won by cities where they speak German, like Dusseldorf or Vienna, where they're burning, again, half as much fuel.
They assumed two percent, and that made it a pretty hopeless story, because population growth was two and a half.
That new cover shows, well, Africa rising, because the growth over the last 10 years has been about five and a half percent.
I would like to see if you can all now become economists, because if growth for the last 10 years has been five and a half percent, what do you think the IMF is forecasting for the next five years of growth in Africa?
I think you're secretly saying to your head, probably five and a half percent.
It grew at two percent when population growth was about two and a half.
Half the city was dark because of a power cut, and I was living on the dark side.
As the mayor was preparing to deliver the speech starting the march, his team noticed that, while half of the participants were appropriately dressed in white, and bearing banners asking for peace, the other half was actually marching in support of the criminal organization and its now-presumed-defunct leader.
Whether we like it or not, the U.S. is the largest market for illegal substances in the world, accounting for more than half of global demand.
It weighs only about two kilograms, but it can carry half its weight.
That's roughly one and a half times the size of Manhattan.
Half of the Earth's population lives in cities today.
Half a billion of us live in megacities.
Typically we end up with about less than half, right, which is normal.
Gorillas and orangutans, for instance, afford about 30 billion neurons by spending eight and a half hours per day eating, and that seems to be about as much as they can do.
And remarkably, that matches exactly what our ancestors are believed to have invented one and a half million years ago, when they invented cooking.
Now if we achieved that 10-percent reduction across all three cohorts, then the investors get a seven and a half percent annualized return on their investment, and if we do better than that, they can get up to 13 percent annualized return on their investment, which is okay.
Instead of just coming out of the prison with 46 pounds in their pocket, half of them not knowing where they're spending their first night out of jail, actually, someone meets them in prison, learns about their issues, meets them at the gate, takes them through to somewhere to stay, connects them to benefits, connects them to employment, drug rehabilitation, mental health, whatever's needed.
In the next 50 years, more than half of those cities which will exist in the year 2060 will be built.
In my country of Colombia, almost half the homes in cities initially were illegal developments.
Around this half of the country, most of your caves are made of limestone.
We followed this cave back for about a half mile until it came to an end, and then with the help of our survey tools we made a three-dimensional map of the cave on our way back out.
So they plugged him in again, and this time, they used 110 volts for half a second.
Assuming it's dark, this means it's about half a mile long.
Half the purpose of art is to describe such iconic states.
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