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Rockstar-statistician Hans Rosling has previously explained why the washing machine sparked the reading revolution and how 200 countries changed over 200 years. In this shortest TED talk ever given, Rosling uses a stack of stones to explain how global population growth will affect wealth distribution in the future and what will happen to the gap between the rich and the poor.

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22 / 05

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I believe that all people are in possession of what might be called a universal musical mind. Any true music speaks with this universal mind, to the universal mind in all people. The understanding that results will vary only in so far as people have or have not been conditioned to the various styles of music to which the universal mind speaks.

Iconic musician Bill Evans on playing jazz and the creative process.

Contrast with neuroscientist Gary Marcus, who debunks the myth of a music instinct.

(via explore-blog)

05 / 04

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After ABCinema, which matches each letter of the alphabet with a famous movie, the ABC of monsters.

(↬ Go Into The Story)

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Tiny Stories : The Orange and the Egg

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Espírito Santo, 1972 - Bina Fonyat (1945 - 1985)

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Without passion life is nothing

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Espen Fadnes, the world’s fastest human being!

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On this day in 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed by David Chapman.

Singer, songwriter, artist, activist, and pop star… Popular culture has rarely seen a talent as endlessly captivating as John Lennon. Before being shot dead by an obsessed fan in New York City in 1980, Lennon enjoyed enormous commercial and critical success with history’s most famous rock band, The Beatles.

Pictured: John and Yoko pose in December 1968. “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot,” he said.

(see more — John Lennon & Yoko Ono)

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izmia:

Button Sculptures - Düğme Heykeller by Augusto Esquivel

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“Be yourself… you can’t be anybody else.” (Tubby the Tuba)

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