Absurdity, Allegory and China

“Clutter is a failure of design, not an attribute of information.” – Edward Tufte Below is a link to Hans Rosling’s TEDIndia talk showing the rise of Asian development over the past 150 years. I’ve chosen to link indirectly to his talk at TED.com through the Gapminder website here, so that maybe you will spend [...]

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Do yourself a favor and go have a look at Hans Rosling’s latest TED talk given in June 2009 at the US State Department. (I have linked to Professor Rosling’s site rather than TED, since you ought to have a look at some of the things he and others are doing there.)  This man has [...]

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It’s hard not to like TED Talks – “Inspired talks by the world’s leading thinkers and doers” – though sometimes the dazzle of the presenters/presentations burn brightly in the moment and then fizzle in memory. This probably has more to do with my memory than the message, but not all the time. Case in point: [...]

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