Awesome Google widget

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http://tools.google.com/gapminder

Charts life expectancy against income per capita, all over the world. Color coded by regions shown on a map. You can single out particular countries and watch their progress from the 1970s or so on. Really, really neat. Also depressing when you look at countries like, oh, Rwanda.

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Lecture on gapminder

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Here (http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=hans_rosling) is a lecture about this very cool tool. If only my college professors had been so animated! (Well, a few were.)