Speaking of disseminating information to interested groups via the Internet:

The publicly funded data is down here, and we’d like flowers to grow up on the net.

Myths about the Developing World Hans Rosling, TED Talks, 2007

Back in the 1960s there was the rich world with low birthrate and long life expectancy and the poor world with high birthrate and low life expectancy. Nowadays there’s much overlap and many countries that were formerly in the poor camp are almost indistinguishable from the rich camp. Seeing China climb up one way and then the other over time sinks this concept in more effectively than reading about it. Continue reading →