The Best 40 Minutes You’ll Spend Today (2 videos)
No, it won’t take you 40 minutes to read my blatherings. That’s not the best 40 minutes you’ll spend. Rather, you’ll spend it watching the videos below.
Every once in a while, something comes along that is jaw-dropping. And over at TED.com it comes along so often, that they have a whole category for stuff that is jaw-dropping. And it is. I’ve been a fan of William McDonough for a long time (see my review of Cradle to Cradle), so I wasn’t surprised to find that his TED video was awesome. But I had never even heard of Hans Rosling, co-founder of Doctors without Borders, sword-swallower (really) and poverty researcher. I’ve never seen anyone with a similar ability to make statistics as gripping as the climax scene in an action movie.
This is just a sample though. There is a lot of good stuff at TED.com. If this works, you can watch the videos right from this page. If it doesn’t, the videos are:
- 2007 Statistical Pyrotechnics in Rosling’s Encore Performance. There’s quite a bit of overlap, but his first talk may be the Best Statistical Talk ever until the 2007 one
- Bill McDonough asks why rubber duckies have cancer warnings. And tells us how to buidl China
So assuming my attempt at using the TED embedding code is successful…
Rosling’s African Swedish Grandmother
Bill McDonough’s Duck
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