Tag Archives: Population

Find out how big the world’s population was when you were born

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

The UN is set to announce that the world’s population is has reached 7 billion. The BBC has been exploring how this is affecting daily lives: Seven billion and counting. The Guardian has a great tool that can calculate how … Continue reading →

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Ever closer to 7 billion….

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

I came across this World Population Clock from Worldometers after a tip off from a friend on Google+. It’s essentially a countdown to the world reaching 7 billion people, which according to their calculations will be around 31st of October. … Continue reading →

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Eat insects for lunch? You must be joking. Apparently not!

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

The idea for this post was sparked by an article in the Metro which discussed the idea that  because the Department of Health has highlighted that we shouldn’t eat more than 500g of red meat  a week, that we should … Continue reading →

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