Progress
by digby
Howie offers this up for the end of a long and difficult week-end:
My old friend Dan Levitin, a professor at McGill and author of This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science Of Human Obsession and The World In Six Songs: How The Musical Brain Created Human Nature, turned me on to this spectacular 4:47 video of Dr. Hans Rosling explaining the past 200 years of world progress using an animated and utterly fascinating graph. It speaks for itself– and so much more energetically and eloquently than I could possibly hope to explain it– so do yourself a favor and watch it. Watch it as pure science or as history or as a wonder of technological achievement.
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