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26 Nov
Happy Thanksgiving!
I am spending my Thanksgiving at my parents, indulging in my dad’s iMac. I just watched a NASA video lecture on the history of the universe, given by Dr. John C. Mather. Neat stuff. I like that NASA has these layman’s videos.
20 Nov
Hans Rosling, Gapminder.org: Let my dataset change your mindset
Briefly, about Hans Rosling and his talk: Even the most worldly and well-traveled among us will have their perspectives shifted by Hans Rosling. A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (he points out) is no longer worlds away from [...]
