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Very nice visualisation of the US stock market, broken down by type of company.
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The study, funded by the Medical Research Council, found MBCT, developed in 2002 by a team of psychologists from Canada, Oxford, and Cambridge, was actually more effective than medication in improving patients" quality of life.
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In American lore, the small town is the archetypal community, a state of grace from which city dwellers have fallen (thus capitulating to all sorts of political ills like, say, socialism). Even among die-hard New Yorkers, those who could hardly imagine a life anywhere else, youâ™ll find people who secretly harbor nostalgia for the small village theyâ™ve never known.
Yet the picture of citiesâ”and New York in particularâ”that has been emerging from the work of social scientists is that the people living in them are actually less lonely. Rather than driving people apart, large population centers pull them together, and as a rule tend to possess greater community virtues than smaller ones.
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Very funny, very wise.
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An awesome trailer. I"ll be downloading this and playing it through, if they ever actually finish it.
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100 movie spoilers in under 4 minutes in one take. Naked.
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Date: 2008-12-01 03:37 pm (UTC)This report from the uni of Sheffield would seem to indicate the opposite in the UK. Communities generally disappearing and the cities (especially Edinburgh) being some of the worst for it.
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Date: 2008-12-01 03:56 pm (UTC)The article I linked to talks about how they expected people to _feel_ lonely in cities, because people move around a lot, lived alone, etc, and how when they dug into that they found it wasn't true.
The article you linked to simply says that people live in one place less than they used to, and live alone more. Doesn't tell us anything about whether they feel lonely, or how community-spirited they are.
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Date: 2008-12-01 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-01 04:05 pm (UTC)And it's an interesting one. I'm much happier in the city, because there are so many more people that I can find a few that I like a lot, whereas when living in smaller places there's not the population to support that.