Thursday, January 6, 2011
Jan. 6th, 2011 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyToday was pretty much similar to yesterday. I read “Marco Polo” and “Silk Road” and some Sherlock Holmes. I’m certainly catching up on my Central Asia history.
I was playing this online game where you have to name all the countries on each continent in certain amount of time. You type in a country and if it is right it shows up on the blank map. It was fun. Oceania is what I know the least about. I’m surprised at how much I know about Asia probably because I’ve been reading so much about it. I also did the game for counties of England, both modern and pre-1974 change.
National Geographic article about our population hitting 7 billion this year and the general population trend was very interesting. I didn’t realize that 9 billion in 2050 is probably will be as high as it will get as the population is really slowing down. Educating women is still the best strategy to slow population growth but the point this article is making that it isn’t about overpopulation right now as much as it is how we use resources to take care of that population. When I grew up everyone had one or two kids, and three children was really strange and considered a big family and when I came here, TV shows always had three children as a standard family and that was weird to me.
Exercise: 30 minute walk
Cross-stitch: Orange and gold this time and some ducky feet. I messed up one color on the beak, since the symbols for yellow and gold look very similar, I will have to fix it tomorrow.
I was playing this online game where you have to name all the countries on each continent in certain amount of time. You type in a country and if it is right it shows up on the blank map. It was fun. Oceania is what I know the least about. I’m surprised at how much I know about Asia probably because I’ve been reading so much about it. I also did the game for counties of England, both modern and pre-1974 change.
National Geographic article about our population hitting 7 billion this year and the general population trend was very interesting. I didn’t realize that 9 billion in 2050 is probably will be as high as it will get as the population is really slowing down. Educating women is still the best strategy to slow population growth but the point this article is making that it isn’t about overpopulation right now as much as it is how we use resources to take care of that population. When I grew up everyone had one or two kids, and three children was really strange and considered a big family and when I came here, TV shows always had three children as a standard family and that was weird to me.
Exercise: 30 minute walk
Cross-stitch: Orange and gold this time and some ducky feet. I messed up one color on the beak, since the symbols for yellow and gold look very similar, I will have to fix it tomorrow.