Looking at the world with better granularity

[Almo]

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

This is very interesting, in my opinion. It shows how it's inaccurate to think of "The trouble in Africa," among other things.

 

[Ryokan]

What an eye opener. The world IS heading in the right direction. The world IS getting better.

 

[Earthborn]

Be sure to also watch Rosling's talks from 2007 and 2009.

 

[bickerer]

Thanks Almo, that was fascinating, especially the splitting of the African continent into countries and then smaller regions with totally different results. The bit at the end incorporating internet users was particularily interesting to me for some reason (if particularily short) as well, and I'd like to see more of that. I may have to view that again actually, and I love TED talks, there's some great lectures on that site, don't know how I missed that one.

 

[Ladewig]

Informative and entertaining.

 

[GreNME]

Slightly updated version of the same presentation, given to the US State Department this summer.