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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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YouTube - Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks
Liked it Oct 26, 2007 2:51pm 2 reviews •http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVz...
Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen.
on YouTube a talk by Hans Rosling

You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling's hands, global trends -- life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates -- become clear, intuitive and even playful.

Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

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An excellent presentation of world health statistics and their movement in time.

There should be no doubt left that the increase in life expectancy experienced by all nations entering modernity is not primarily provoked by the spread of modern medicine but well by the application of simple hygiene principles. Among those the distribution of drinkable water to people's houses has assuredly acted as the most determinant parameter...

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