The Healthy, Wealthy Corner - What 200 Years of Scientific Progress Can Do

This video shows Hans Rosling, a statistician who is doing a great job of popularizing his craft, vividly illustrating what 200 years of scientific progress — medicine, materials, agriculture, and many other fields — can accomplish.

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(Hat tip to JL for the link.)

Kent Anderson

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Kent Anderson is the CEO of RedLink and RedLink Network, a past-President of SSP, and the founder of the Scholarly Kitchen. He has worked as Publisher at AAAS/Science, CEO/Publisher of JBJS, Inc., a publishing executive at the Massachusetts Medical Society, Publishing Director of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Opinions on social media or blogs are his own.

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Hans Rosling has been successfully explaining statistics to the masses for years now. He is a regular at the TED conference, for more videos see http://www.ted.com/search?q=Hans