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The seemingly impossible is possible - a hopeful message
The seemingly impossible is possible - a hopeful message
After being pretty impressed by Hans Rosling's lecture here , I've looked around gapminder.org to find this video (one year younger) with even more animated and fun graphics, and with even better presentation by Rosling. Keep looking until the end, when the seemingly impossible becomes possible.
There is hope for the world when there are passionate people like this around... picked by rambler 3 months ago
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 dollyllama
3 months ago
Well that was really fun and very informative, he's quite brilliant and funny.

I'm not sure I think of sword swallowing as "impossible" since so many people have done it, it's obviously not impossible, but a great ending to this speech.

I was very surprised that culture plays such an important role. I would think human rights would be more important. He didn't really explain why culture was more important except that it makes people happy or it bonds them, but so does human rights.
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 ieldanth
3 months ago
Culture would be the song of humanity. Human Rights gives everyone a voice in that song.
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 dollyllama
3 months ago
« ieldanth : Culture would be the song of humanity. Human Rights gives everyone a voice in that song.
Wow, did you just make that up? That's absolutely poetic.
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 ieldanth
3 months ago
After thinking about what to say for about 15 minutes, yes. :D

Glad you like it. :)
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