February 2010
3 posts
January 2010
7 posts
SR-71 Disintegrates Around Pilot During Flight... →
…Everything seemed to unfold in slow motion. I learned later the time from event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3 sec. Still trying to communicate with Jim, I blacked out, succumbing to extremely high g-forces. The SR-71 then literally disintegrated around us…
Parametric estimations of the world distribution... →
Since 1970, income worldwide has increased 10x while income inequality has declined.
World poverty is falling. This column presents new estimates of the world’s income distribution and suggests that world poverty is disappearing faster than previously thought. From 1970 to 2006, poverty fell by 86% in South Asia, 73% in Latin America, 39% in the Middle East, and 20% in Africa. Barring a...
