A whole new way of seeing the world

Guaranteed: You’ve never seen data presented like this. By any logic, a presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be, in a word: boring. But in Rosling’s hands, data sings. Trends come to life. And the big picture — usually hazy at best — snaps into sharp focus.

Rosling developed breakthrough software which animates trends in incredible ways showing you that most of the third world is on the same trajectory toward health and prosperity, and many countries are moving twice as fast as the west did. This has UNBELIEVABLE impacts on the world as you and I might know it.

Bring a tear to your eye

Cleaning up the bookmarks in my web browser I found this gem. At the time of this clip, Paul Potts used to be a salesman at ‘carphone warehouse’ … just shows you never to judge anyone by their job. Turn your speakers up, and try not to cry.

Old Australian Cook Books

Who says we don’t have culinary heritage. The library of NSW is exhibiting cookbooks from our pioneering days that include recipes for bandicoots, kangaroo brains and black swans.

“Even less appetising is a recipe in Australia’s first known cookbook, dating from 1864, for a dish called ’slippery bob’, consisting of kangaroo brains mixed with flour and water then fried in emu fat.”

The story of a sign

Cool short film that won the NFB online competition at Cannes 2008. With a change of words, a stranger transforms the afternoon for a blind man:

How much food does your family throw away?

The daily mail has an interesting article that really made me think about just how much food we buy and how much of it ends in the bin. The image below shows a weekly shop for one of the participants in the survey - half of it will end up in the bin.

What a waste… my family is throwing away �1,800 worth of food a year | the Daily Mail

Sick of grocery shopping - try this

Bored of pushing your wobbly shopping trolley up those sterile isles? Try this:

Via: Neatorama

All the water and air on earth gathered into spheres and compared to the Earth

Credit:
ADAM NIEMAN / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Fantastic post on Boing Boing showing a computer simulation of all the water on the earth(left hand side)- which includes sea water, clouds, glaciers, underground water etc. On the right is all the air on earth. Both these images represent water and air at the same scale as the earth.

As explained on the science photo website:

Global water and air volume. Conceptual computer artwork of the total volume of water on Earth (left) and of air in the Earth’s atmosphere (right) shown as spheres (blue and pink).

The spheres show how finite water and air supplies are. The water sphere measures 1390 kilometres across and has a volume of 1.4 billion cubic kilometres. This includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as ground water, and that in the atmosphere.

The air sphere measures 1999 kilometres across and weighs 5140 trillion tonnes. As the atmosphere extends from Earth it becomes less dense. Half of the air lies within the first 5 kilometres of the atmosphere.

Cheeseburger in a Can

I’m guessing the pic below is actually better than what’s in the can. I think this is one of those ideas that should have just stayed an idea:

Food: Cheeseburger in a Can is Both the Best and Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (

An inspiring talk from Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talking about how kids are overprotected and the 5 dangerous things you should let them do and why:

Olympic Highlights

Last video before bed time. These guys are just plain clever: