Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset. Ited Nations Millennium Development Goals. The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.
They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda. News on Millennium Development Goals Launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Solutions Summit. 5 Helpful Answers To Society's Most Uncomfortable Questions.
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Are Rampant, When Even Mild Jokes About Those Things Will Ruin Your Career Now? " Jupiterimages/PHOTOS.com>>/Getty Images One of the big reasons for that upward spike in humanity on the line graph is we started to figure out how to get the most out of humans. For instance, 1,000 years ago, if you were a genius born on a farm, it didn't matter -- it just meant you were going to be a genius who shoveled shit. Two hundred years ago, if you were a genius who was born as an African-American, it didn't matter -- you were going to live your life as a genius slave. The upward surge in humanity has coincided with us taking down more and more of those arbitrary barriers because humanity realized it badly needs all those geniuses out in the field doing genius things.
Ryan McVay/Photodisc/Getty ImagesWhere upon they made breakthrough discoveries, such as "a penis is not required for chemistry. " U.S. TIL J.K. Rowling became the first person to become a billionaire by writing books. However, she also lost her billionaire status because she donated so much money to charity. : todayilearned. When Should a Psychiatrist Refuse to Treat a Patient? Kinja is in read-only mode.
We are working to restore service. Finally, the article I was waiting for. All of us have those moments when we have to draw a line. We can use our knowledge to help people feel better about doing bad things. Or we can admit there is a moral realm that stands outside rationality, outside science, and outside our quest for perfect understanding. No, positive morality does not stand outside rationality or the purview of science. The Governor of California has signed a law outlawing the use of the so-called ‘gay panic’ defense. : politics.
The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia. The town of Hogeway, outside Amsterdam, is a Truman Show-style nursing home.
When Yvonne van Amerongen received a phone call from her mother two decades ago, relaying that her father had died of a heart attack—sudden and painless—one of the first things she thought was, Thank God he never had to be in a nursing home. Van Amerongen was working as a staff member at a traditional Dutch nursing home at the time, getting a front-line view of what she never wanted for her parents. That call from her mother spurred Yvonne into action as she became committed to making nursing homes more livable and less of a departure from reality for their residents. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
Why 2012 was the best year ever. Never in the history of the world has there been less hunger, less disease and more prosperity Has national morale ever been as strong as it was during the Jubilee and the Olympics? Photo: Getty Images. The below is from The Spectator, the best-written and most entertaining magazine in the English language. To read the whole magazine on iPad/iPhone, click here for a free trial. Or click here for a Kindle free trial. Human Intelligence: The Flynn Effect. This page is now located at an updated address.
Please update your bookmarks! The new address is posted below. You will be redirected to the new page in 15 seconds or you can click the link below. The Flynn Effect. GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever. 7 Reasons the World Looks Worse Than It Really Is. A billion people have been lifted out of poverty in just the last 20 years.
Did you know that? Do you know how it happened? What If the 21st Century Begins in 2014? As if you didn’t already have enough to be nervous about, here’s something creepy to ponder as the new year opens.
This what-if isn’t technological, social, political or even science-fictional. Rather, it’s a bit of wholly unscientific, superstitious pattern-recognition. WOW! The Crazy Story Of How A Skyscraper Became A 45-Story Slum. Icelanders approve their crowdsourced constitution — European technology news. Rare Iceland armed police operation leaves man dead. 2 December 2013Last updated at 11:27 ET Apartments were evacuated as neighbours were considered to be in danger Icelandic police have shot dead a man who was firing a shotgun in his apartment in the early hours of Monday.
It is the first time someone has been killed in an armed police operation in Iceland, officials say. Tear gas canisters were fired through the windows in an attempt to subdue the 59-year-old, who lived in the east of the capital, Reykjavik. When this failed he was shot after firing at police entering the building. Back-up was provided by special forces. Continue reading the main story. Road deaths in Europe per million inhabitants, 2002 and 2012 : dataisbeautiful.