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It's not well appreciated, but over half of the world's population suffers from some form of cognitive, emotional, sensory or motor condition, and because of poor technology, too often, conditions result in disability and a poorer quality of life.
Our suicide rate is nine times higher than that of the general population.
And so we started gathering scientists and started learning about population, learning about vaccines, learning about what had worked and what had failed, and that's really when we got going, was in late 1998, 1999.
BG: Well, we decided that we'd pick two causes, whatever the biggest inequity was globally, and there we looked at children dying, children not having enough nutrition to ever develop, and countries that were really stuck, because with that level of death, and parents would have so many kids that they'd get huge population growth, and that the kids were so sick that they really couldn't be educated and lift themselves up.
If we were to channel and redirect all new development around transit, we could actually handle that population increase, we thought.
The Kalenjin make up just 12 percent of the Kenyan population but the vast majority of elite runners.
That's from a source population the size of metropolitan Atlanta.
One example from corporate America: Even though white men make up just 30 percent of the U.S. population, they hold 70 percent of all corporate board seats.
This is a map of the study site where I have been tracking this population of harvester ant colonies for 28 years, which is about as long as a colony lives.
To my knowledge, this is the first time that we've been able to track the ongoing evolution of collective behavior in a natural population of animals and find out what's actually working best.
There is actually another reason why we might not be looking for a universal sex pheromone there, and that's because 20 percent of the world's population doesn't have smelly armpits like me.
We're expecting that problem to get worse as world population grows to nine billion or 10 billion by midcentury, and we can expect to have greater pressure on our food resources.
This is a slide that shows the herring population in Norway that was crashing since the 1950s.
However, in every religion, in every population, you'll find a small percentage of people who hold so fervently to their beliefs that they feel they must use any means necessary to make others live as they do.
He lived up to his nickname "William the Conqueror" through a massive survey known as the Domesday Book, which recorded the population and ownership of every piece of land in England.
What it is, it's a very large-scale study that polls a very large sample of the world's population, a sample that represents about 70 percent of the planet's population, and I started asking them a series of questions about how they perceive other countries.
It measures, or at least it tries to measure, exactly how much each country on Earth contributes not to its own population but to the rest of humanity.
According to the data here, no country on Earth, per head of population, per dollar of GDP, contributes more to the world that we live in than Ireland.
That's almost half of the Internet population, and a sixth of humanity.
The Cheka was an instrument of the Communists to establish their regime by terrorizing the population and executing their enemies.
From 1975 on, nearly 200,000 people collaborated constantly with the Stasi, more than one percent of the population.
Medical doctors, they're experts on the population, but you are the expert on yourself.
Disturbances died down in the general population.
And in fact, a few years later in 2000, five percent of the world population were using the world wide web.
Since the 1950s, as the population of the medina grew, basic urban infrastructure such as green open spaces and sewage quickly changed and got highly stressed.
It's still under construction, but actually it is heavily used by the local population.
But look how this has changed: As I go forward, what has changed, the world population has grown, and the humps start to merge.
It was during this time that I attended a seminar conducted by Dr Bonnie Bassler from Princeton University, where she talked about how bacteria cells communicate with each other, based on their population density, and perform a specific action.
Over the next two decades, we'll see the demand for energy rise by 40 percent, and the growth in the economy and in the population is putting increasing pressure on our land, on our water and on our forests.
Four hundred million, more than the population of the United States.
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