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Mortgage Math
(Via Andrew Sullivan.)
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Hunger Games Sets Box Office Record
With an estimated take of $155M, Hunger Games is the only non-sequel to place in the top ten greatest opening weekends ever.
Read More »More Mildly Interesting Trivia
75% of JMG traffic is domestic. Canada is next with 6%, then the UK with 3%. After that, it’s all 1% and fractions thereof. And let’s wave hello to our lone daily readers from Lesotho, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan!
Read More »How Many People Can Fit In NYC?
The New York Times looks at shrinking densities: As crowded as the city feels at times, the present-day Manhattan population, 1.6 million, is nowhere near what it once was. In 1910, a staggering 2.3 million people crowded the borough, mostly in tenement buildings. It was a time before zoning, when roughly 90,000 windowless rooms were available for rent, and a …
Read More »Worldwide Income Distribution
National Geographic has a huge interactive version.
Read More »Fastest Growing Big Cities
The U.S. Census has ranked the fastest growing cities whose metro populations exceed one million. My exploding hometown of Orlando ranks at sixth fastest-growing with 2.1M residents. When my family moved there in 1971, the population was around 60,000. The day after we arrived, Walt Disney World opened.
Read More »8,175,135 Stories In The Naked City
New York City officials are apoplectic about just-released 2010 census data which turned up a quarter-million fewer residents than expected. The new figures will mean many millions less in federal funding for everything from schools to social programs to anti-terrorism measures. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg immediately challenged the bureau’s finding, saying it shortchanged the city by as many as 225,000 …
Read More »Where People Volunteer
More on volunteerism here.
Read More »The Lusty South
Researchers at Kansas State University have compiled “seven deadly sins” maps of the United States. Based on per capita rates of all STDs, here’s “Lust.”
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