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Daily Archives: July 21, 2024

Plastics

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(Sequel to the Gapminder post)

Triggered by the gapminder question tile ‘Plastics in Oceans’, I created a lesson around the topic of plastics based on the text below.

History and Future of Plastics | Science History Institute

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Gapminder and SDGs

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Update 2025

Anna Rosling Rönnlund: See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | TED Talk

Some years ago, I watched a TED talk given by the Swedish statistician and physician Hans Rosling and his son. Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world | TED Talk.

I also started reading his book ‘Factfulness’.

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