100 years ago today John Cage started leaving his mark on our cultural landscape. And, by the time he was all done, says The New Yorker’s resident music critic Alex Ross, “he may have surpassed Stravinsky as the most widely cited, the most famous and/or notorious, of twentieth-century composers,” with his influence extending “far outside classical music, into contemporary art and pop culture.”
You may have seen reports of rumours of .... dramatic findings at the Large Hadron Collider over the past few days. I haven't commented on them here so far since the rumours are based on a leaked internal document.
Rosling is a man who revels in the glorious nerdiness of statistics, and here he entertainingly explores their history, how they work mathematically and how they can be used in today's computer age to see the world as it really is, not just as we imagine it to be.
Rosling's lectures use huge quantities of public data to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes.
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