If you’ve not discovered Gapminder, try it. It’s amazing. It shows demographic trends. Graphically.
Click here and see how life expectancy at birth and number of children born per woman changes.
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Here, Hans Rosling explains his reasons for developing Gapminder and how it helps to debunk myths about the developed and developing world. From TED Talks 2006.
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This is the story of Walter and Inez Lowdermilk, an American couple who came to see soil erosion as a threat to civilization. Their pursuit of land conservation carried them from China and the Dust Bowl to Palestine, where their ideas about reclaiming the land helped build the case for the creation of Israel.
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