Hans Rosling on stage

“The old man and Google – A short story by Hans Rosling”

Highlights:
- regrets on denying his son money to buy a faster computer to work on the animation aspects of presenting the bubbles (1998)
- After presenting Gapminder in California, among congrats and praisals by the audience, Google’s Larry Page come’s up and asks “Who wrote the code?” (2006)

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Absolut Athens

Nights in Athens sparkle…

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Norms

Traditionally, that’s my impression at least, the armed forces are correlated to men (that Rambo figure is still vivid ) in most countries (Israel is an exception). Consequently it is rare to see a picture in the news, for a military related issue, not picturing men. Today, I came across an article (snapshot below) in the Local.se on criticism by Swedes towards the Swedish Armed forces and their intention to increase their presence in Afghanistan. What attracted my attention was the picture over the article depicting 3 women and only one man (all in field uniform) and I just found it quite interesting. Maybe it’s just my Greek norms that made me notice but can’t help it…