TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference held in Monterey, California and recently, semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a “group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value”. Its lectures cover a broad set of topics including science, arts, politics, global issues, architecture, music and more. The speakers themselves are from a wide variety of communities and disciplines and have included such people as former US president Bill Clinton, nobel laureate James D. Watson, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The TED Conference also has a companion conference, TED Global, held in varying locations.
Vous pouvez visionner gratuitement TOUTES les presentations sur leur site.
C’est bizarre à dire… mais cette présentation stastitique de 20 minutes est époustouflante et inspirante. Imaginez avoir ce prof à l’école.
Hans Rosling (b.1948 in Uppsala, Sweden) is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of Gapminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden. From 1967 to 1974 he studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and in 1972 he studied public health at St John’s Medical College, Bangalore. He became a licenced physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.
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His research has also focused on other links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has been health adviser to WHO, UNICEF and several aid agencies. In 1993 he co-founded Médecins sans frontières in Sweden…
I love the japanese reactions. Reminds me of "Lost in Translation" with the japanese "hostess" in Bill Murray's'hotel room: "Rlipuuu my stocking uuuh". (réalisé par la fille de Copolla, qui joue dans God Father)
Great interactive map.
Interesting part of the world.
I think we'll be hearing more and more about it as it becomes exploited for it's massive oil resources.
Excerpts:
"Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have substantial gas reserves, but lack of pipeline capacity limits exports."
"Kazakhstan has the second largest oil and gas reserves in the region, behind Russia. Its oil production has more than doubled since 1999 and the government hopes to triple this by 2015."
Some of those countries may suddenly become part of the « rogue countries group ».
Extract:… Analysts say the two sides are signalling they are prepared to counter US dominance in international affairs….
Interesting article… Makes me feel lucky I was born during peaceful times. Sounds like Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations article of 1993: http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html
If you never read this… a great article.
Don’t get me wrong.. I’m not a pessimist or a fatalist. I just think we are lucky to live through these peacefull times
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