The search continues, to find timely meaning in soccer (football) and childbirth: “More Goals, Fewer Babies? On National Teams’ Performance and Birth Rates,” Luca Fumarco and Francesco Principe, IZA DP No. 14448, June 2021 The authors, at Tulane University, IZA, the Tinbergen Institute, and ECASE, explain: “Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled […]
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Explosive Lemming Outbreaks in Fennoscandia
An outbreak of lemmings is not something you’ll see every year. The last major one was 2006 to 2007 – the first time in two decades. The causes of, and mechanisms behind, such population surges are, to this day, intriguing naturalists (and physicists, and mathematicians). But some progress towards understanding the outbreaks is, however, being […]
Sudden population increase in Wilmington, Delaware
The city council of the city of Wilmington, Delaware, USA has just passed a resolution (#12-02, on March 1, 2012) calling for every human sperm and every human egg to have the full set of rights to which each human citizen is entitled. This would instantly increase the population of the city of Delaware from […]