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While I was writing The Cancer Chronicles, I came to a point, early on, where I wondered how many people had ever been alive in the world. The best answer I could find came from a study by an organization called the Population Reference Bureau: 108 billion.
I was stunned by the magnitude of the number. It is still common to hear that more people are alive today than have ever lived. Or an even more extreme claim: that 75 percent of everyone who ever walked the earth is living today. But that is not even close to being correct. By the Population Reference Bureau’s reckoning, the proportion of living to dead is only about 6 percent.
(Source: Discover Magazine)
Naturalezas muertas mostrando carnes sin vida (Piezas de Francisco de Goya, Luis Melendez, Jean Baptist Simeon y Pieter Aertsen)
The Cramps – New Kind Of Kick
Life is short
Filled with stuff
Don’t know what for
I ain’t had enough
A collection of specimens from the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Submitted to me by ididtellyoubutdidyoulisten
Photo credit(all): ididtellyoubutdidyoulisten
Bone neoplasms of the skull and spinal stenosis.
Chazal, Antoine Toussaint de, 1793-1854
Lithography, with hand-colouring
From: Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, 1829-1835
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