Max Roser
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The climate change policy with the most potential is the most neglected
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Public clean energy R&D is overlooked and underfunded.
Max Roser Public clean energy R&D is the climate change policy with the most potential but is the most neglected 6d
Human Development Reports | United Nations Development Programme
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Max Roser The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index was just now published: One reality the report highlights is the big geographic inequality within countries. This chart shows that the variation within Uganda is as large as across SubS-Africa. 7d
Y Combinator's Michael Seibel: "Stupidity or genius"
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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Michael Seibel, chief executive of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup bootcamp, to talk about why chaotic markets are good for startups (3:50), how he ended up at YC (6:20), the importance...
Max Roser A fun podcast with Y Combinator’s CEO Michael Seibel He talks about YC, startups, about the danger of declining competition as the tech giants are trying to close down the path that they once took, and what he thinks about regulation of tech business. 8d
GPEI-Polio Now
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Max Roser An update on the fight against polio: In the early 1980s more than 350,000 people suffered from paralytic polio cases every year. In the last 12 months there were 159 cases of polio globally () [More research you find in our entry ] 8d
Max Roser On you always find the latest data. In blue the wild polio cases (in the last 12 months there were only cases in Pakistan & Afghanistan). And in orange the cVDPV (circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases) – more about this here 8d
Making of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants
Nicholas Rougeux - C82.net 9d 1 tweets
If someone told me when I was young that I would spend three months of my time tracing nineteenth century botanical illustrations and enjoy it, I would have scoffed, but that’s what I did to reproduce Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural...
Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants
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A complete reproduction of each vignette from Elizabeth Twining’s celebrated two-volume catalog from 1868, Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants enhanced with interactive definitions and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux.
AfricaMap
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Max Roser If you are interested in the history and geography of Africa you might find Harvard’s AfricaMap interesting: 9d
Announcing Startup School 2019
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Today, we're opening up registration for Startup School 2019, our free online course for founders looking to get help turning an idea into a startup. The 10 week course will begin July 22, 2019 and is free for everyone to participate. You can...
Universal Health Coverage - Commons Library briefing - UK Parliament
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Max Roser Parliament will have a debate on Universal Health Coverage tomorrow morning. Great to see that the briefings notes for the debate () include material and references to our work on healthcare finance 9d
Book Review: Oxford Weather and Climate Since 1767 by Christopher C. Burt | Category 6
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A new book may be the most detailed analysis of any one city’s weather and climate ever published.
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Max Roser My hometown has one of the largest weather records worldwide. A new book – ‘Oxford Weather and Climate Since 1767’ by Burt and Burt – presents it. The town has warmed by 1.72°C over the last 200 years. An interesting book review is here 9d
Performance Curve Database
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Max Roser oh! good I asked before starting to reinvent R :-) Yes, that makes sense. For a very long time we wanted to revive the Santa Fe tech database [] but so far we haven’t found funding or a good person to do it. 11d
All My Tweets - View all your tweets on one page.
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View all tweets from any Twitter user on one page. Fast, Free and Easy. Great for viewing, searching and archiving old tweets.
Beef meat production
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Total beef and buffalo (cattle) meat production, measured in tonnes per year. All data shown relate to total meat production, from both commercial and farm slaughter. Data are given in terms of dressed carcass weight, excluding offal and slaughter...
Max Roser Until 1980 Argentina was producing more beef than Brazil. Today Brazil is producing more than three-times as much. [Source: ] 12d
Average years of schooling vs. Expected years of schooling
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Average number of years the population older than 25 participated in formal education. Expected years of schooling are the number of years a child of school entrance age can expect to receive if the current age-specific enrollment rates persist...
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Max Roser Around the world children who enter school today can expect more education than the older generations in the same country. This chart shows average years of education of those older than 25 against the expected years of schooling – as shown in tweet above 12d
The standard errors of persistence
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A large literature on persistence finds that many modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the past. Although these regressions feature unusually high t statistics, they
Max Roser Morgan Kelly suggests that some of the literature on long-run persistence might confuse ‘deep origins’ with spatial autocorrelation. 12d
Wie plant man eine Stadt? Eine Graphic Story über Städtebau
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Köln oder Hamburg, Regensburg oder Lübeck - auf den ersten Blick ist Stadt gleich Stadt. Doch die Unterschiede sind mitunter gewaltig. Eine Geschichte des Städtebaus in Schwarzplänen. Mit interaktiver Karte für ganz Deutschland.
Max Roser How did Germany’s towns and and cities become the places they are today? What explains their diversity and similarity? 'Deutschland Schwarz-Weiss’ is a beautiful article that tells the urban history of the country 13d
Share who say they are 'very satisfied' or 'fairly satisfied' with their life
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The full question asks: "On the whole are you very satisfied, fairly satisfied, not very satisfied or not at all satisfied with the life you lead?"
Max Roser On all our interactive charts we aim to provide a link to the source data on the Sources tab. 14d
PublicOpinion - European Commission
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Max Roser You can check the source here: Here are screenshots from the three countries you were discussing. The responses to “Not at all satisfied” and “Not very satisfied” did not increase. 14d
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Max Roser Life satisfaction in the UK from 1973 to 2017. – Stagnation from the 70s to the 90s (at a high level above 80%). – The share who say they are satisfied increased (to above 90%). And fewer say they are not satisfied. [Source: ] 14d
How I use Our World in Data in my work as a high school teacher
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At Our World in Data we get lots of useful feedback from users: suggestions for topics we should cover, questions, and often feedback from policymakers, journalists, researchers and teachers who use us in their work.
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Max Roser Matthew Cone – – is an exceptional teacher. I met him with his students last year and they were incredibly well informed and curious about how the world changes. Now he wrote a post to explain how he uses in his teaching 14d
How I use Our World in Data in my work as a medical doctor
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Living conditions around the world are changing rapidly. Explore how and why.
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Max Roser A while ago Dr Jill Gordon got in touch saying she uses Our World in Data to help patients with mental health problems. I would have never expected this and asked her whether she could explain. She got back now and allowed us to share her experience 15d