TED: Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers - Steven Pinker
"Why don't people appreciate progress?"
"Why don't people appreciate progress?"
Turns out...
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Robert Webb and Clementine Ford talking for the Wheeler Centre about his book How Not to Be a Boy.
Eric Schles describes his experiences working on social justice initiatives and the types of work that proved to be the most helpful to the groups that he was working with.
The story goes that Amsterdam in the 1630s was gripped by a mania for Tulip flowers. But then there was a crash in the market. People ended up bankrupt and threw themselves into canals. This story is still being trotted out when people talk about financial markets lately as a comparison to buying and selling bitcoin. But how much of what we know of the Tulip craze is fact, and how much is myth? We speak to Anne Goldgar at Kings College London who explains all.
This sounds very interesting - creating monitoring tools for data quality "by example".
An interesting static site content management system hybrid.
Chris Anderson talking with SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell about BFR etc.
Really good interview with Don Hoffman explaining his theory that evolution selects against having an objective view of reality.