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Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four (via BBC)
Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.
No Homo: That’s Gay (via Current)
Are you terrified that people may think you’re gay? No worries, hip hop has coined a phrase to get you out of the stickiest situations. Just throw in a “no homo” and you can say pretty much anything you want!
(via EconomistMagazine)
The Economist reports on how immigrants help both the countries they leave and those to which they move.
Tracks migration and remittances globally. The top remittance recipients in 2008 were India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, and Poland.
Sources: Human Development Report 2009, UNDP; The World Bank
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The logic and process of producing cocaine in Colombia.
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The Wire - It’s a Bad Time for Newspapers (via WireLover2)
In the twilight years of the newspaper medium, a newsroom set in early 2008 reacts to news of budget cuts.
YouTube: Executive Editor Whiting delivers to his reporters the news of major budgetary cuts. (The Wire, Season 5, Episode 3 “Not for Attribution)