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Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

Length: 20:35
Rating Average: 4.86 from 1007 people
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Author: TEDtalksDirector

Tags: "Hans "Karolinska "Third developing development global health industrialization Institute" Rosling" statistics Talks TED TEDtalks world World"

http://www.ted.com You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world." TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Gun Myths

Length: 5:52
Rating Average: 4.81 from 615 people
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Author: shmodzilla

Tags: abc ak-47 awb cdc Cho firearms gun handgun m16 myths news pistol pistols rifle Seung-Hu Tech violence Virginia

probably the best story ever on firearms in the USA. Its older but finaly one using hard facts.

The Myths of Innovation

Length: 60:34
Rating Average: 4.46 from 79 people
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Author: Google

Tags: google howto innovation myths

Google Tech Talks May 14, 2007 ABSTRACT Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That's the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we've constructed about how we got here. This talk, loosely based on the upcoming O'Reilly book (May 2007), will help you to recognize the myths, understand why they're popular (even if you don't believe in them), and how to use the truth to help you innovate today. Speaker: Scott Berkun Credits: Speaker:Scott Berkun

Tax Havens: Myths vs. Facts

Length: 9:56
Rating Average: 4.72 from 40 people
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Author: afq2007

Tags: case center cf&p cfp competition fact freedom Mitchell moral myths oecd prosperity quinlan Tax

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation has produced videos showing the economic and moral benefits of so-called tax havens. This final video in the three-part series addresses some of the most common myths put forth by politicians from high-tax nations. Using academic research and data from international organizations, the video shows that the most common attacks made against low-tax jurisdictions are empty demagoguery.

DEBUNKING MOTH MYTHS - UC Scientists Speak Out

Length: 15:27
Rating Average: 4.92 from 25 people
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Author: eon3

Tags: aerial Apple Brown Carey Daniel Dr. forced Harder James Joe LBAM Light Moth Senator Simitian Spray spraying Stop the

According to two UC scientists, not only can the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) not be 'eradicated' by the forced aerial pesticide spraying of the San Francisco Bay Area planned for this summer by a state agency, but it poses no real threat to agriculture in the first place. UC Davis Entomologist Dr. James Carey and UC Santa Cruz Arboretum Executive Director Dr. Daniel Harder present the results of their research at the March 13, 2008 informational hearing held in San Rafael by State Senator Joe Simitian, Chair of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. Dr. Harder's report on his recent trip to New Zealand, where the LBAM is "...effectively controlled almost exclusively by natural predators in both agricultural settings and wild lands," is available on-line at: http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2021

FSN Sport Science - Episode 7 - Myths - Jennie Finch

Length: 7:40
Rating Average: 4.63 from 259 people
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Author: OldSport85

Tags: american base baseball basketball brenkus byrne finch football Science softball Sport

Jennie Finch, Bryan Byrne, John Brenkus, Base Productions Baseball vs. Softball - I know who I'm cheering for BASE Productions

Absinthe Myths

Length: 4:32
Rating Average: 4.88 from 64 people
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Author: OUTSIDEGO

Tags: Absinthe alcohol distilling hallucinations myths thujone wormwood

In 2007, after being banned for almost a century, absinthe became legal in the United States. The re-evaluation came after European distillers pressured American officials to conduct real research on the supposed deleterious effects of the herbal liqueur. With scientific data debunking the common public misconception that traditional absinthe caused hallucinations or had toxic side effects, the U.S. government lifted the ban and brought glee to American absinthe connoisseurs and distillers. But among the general public many of the myths still prevail. To help set the record straight Laurence Liss, Web Editor for Outside's Go, went to Alameda, California to speak with Lance Winters, Distiller at St. George Spirits, the first American absinthe producer in nearly 100 years.

Four Myths About Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, H-bomb ...

Length: 48:11
Rating Average: 5.00 from 6 people
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Author: MontereyInstitute

Tags: CNS deterrence Hiroshima MIIS nonproliferation nuclear Ward weapon Wilson

Ward Wilson, grand prize winner of the 2008 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest talks about a new security paradigm at a luncheon seminar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He argues that the Japanese did not surrender because of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since nuclear deterrence relies on the threat of city destruction and city destruction is an ineffective way to wage war, he calls the efficacy of nuclear deterrence into question.

Myths About the Developing World (1of3) (Hans Rosling @ TED)

Length: 7:23
Rating Average: 4.69 from 80 people
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Author: Sidewinder77

Tags: Africa Aid capita Developing Economic free Gapminder GDP Growth Hans per Poverty Rosling Statistics TED trade World

This global health visionary has discovered a powerful new way to communicate complex data about the world. He co-founded Gapminder, whose remarkable interactive graphs help deliver profound insights about global trends and dispel myths about the "developing world". With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, he debunks a few of those myths in this presentation delivered at the 2006 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference. (http://www.ted.com/) Hans Rosling is a Professor, Doctor, and Co-founder of Gapminder Try Gapminder for yourself: http://www.gapminder.org/