"Where everyone in the world is migrating—in one gorgeous chart"

While the results of the migration study aren’t particularly groundbreaking, there are two interesting insights:
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1) Adjusted for population growth, the global migration rate has stayed roughly the same since around since 1995 (it was higher from 1990-1995).
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2) It’s not the poorest countries sending people to the richest countries, it’s countries in transition—still poor, but with some education and mobility—that are the highest migratory contributors.
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“One of the conclusions they make in the paper, is the idea as countries develop, they continue to send more migrants, and at some point they become migrant-receiving regions themselves,” says Fernando Riosmena, a geographer from the University of Colorado, who did not contribute to this research, but is collaborating with one of the authors on a future paper.

Bored?

Mighty God King has a system for you to game.

A reminder

The deadline for Hugo nominations fast approaches!

if I was teaching a 101 level course on SF

excluding fantasy for the moment, and I wanted to provide examples from each decade after SF became a formal genre, this might be the list of works:

Historical: Frankenstein

1930s: "Shambleau" (CL Moore)
1940s: "In Hiding" (Wilmar Shiras)
1950s: "The Snowball Effect" (Katherine MacLean)
1960s: Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin)
1970s: We Who Are About To... (Joanna Russ)
1980s: A Door into Ocean (Joan Slonczewski)
1990s: Ammonite (Nicola Griffith)
2000s: Farthing (Jo Walton)

(more recent than that too close to us to judge)

Something I just noticed about SFWA's current board

SFWA board in order of debut sale:
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You know what I did not know until just now?

Lee Killough had a new book out last year.

The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: March 2001

Lists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/

This will be very, very quick.
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One issue where OSC is way out of step with the Republicans

Immigration

(not as mpry as usual)

"Metropolitan areas are now fueling virtually all of America’s population growth"

Nearly one in seven Americans lives in the metropolitan areas of the country's three largest cities: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.