The World is Changing

[bigh0rt]

This is a tremendous 20 minute lecture given by Swedish Professor Hans Rosling from TED Talks. If you are interested at all in exercising your brain or learning a bit more about some of your misconceptions about the world, the way it exists today, and the way its changed in the last 50 years, I strongly suggest giving it a view. He's quite charismatic and uses and debunks quite a few myths and misconceptions about global development. I'd love to hear what people think of this.

[Matthew]

Great find.

I thought he made an excellent point when he compared the poorest 20 % of the poorest African country and the richest 20 % of South Africa I think it was and said " you cant have the same AIDS program for both".

I wish at my univeristy they had more lecturers like him then the hippies who use their lectures to blame America and George Bush for everything.

I think 95% of the misconceptions in the world are the media's fault though.

[Tuomas]

Very interesting indeed. The most interesting part for me was that the UN statistics are that difficult to obtain, that's another stupidity right there.