Ola Rosling @OlaRosling Twitter profile

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

6 years

Today, two years ago, my father @HansRosling died. I have missed him 24 7. But I have been comforted by the global appreciation of #factfulness . Hans would have been very proud and happy if he knew how popular it became. Thank you everyone who help spread a fact-based worldview!

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3 years ago @HansRosling died. At least ones a week I dream he is back. In my dreams it was a misunderstanding and we laugh at it and keep working. In reality, we keep working. Me & ♥️ @AnnaGapminder , & @Gapminder soon launching a new tool for @factfulness in practice. Stay tuned!

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7 years

99.99% of life in Stockholm is just same as usual. People comfort each other while walking home in a beautiful spring sunset.

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3 years

This looks bad: 3 weeks after cases started increasing in NYC, the death increase is not far below previous waves, unfortunately indicating that Omicron’s fatality rate is maybe NOT drastically lower than Delta’s, which we all had wished for.

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This may be the most important page on the Internet: The list of climate tipping-elements: …. But in it's current form it wont get the attention of regular people! @PaulHBeckwith and @jrockstrom where is the effective educational video explaining it all?

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9 years

I just coind the term Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying oppinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

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4 years

Mathematicians who are pretending their complex corona simulations are anything but hypothetical, are gambling with the public's general trust in science. Metrologist's have gained public trust by NEVER pretending they can predict the weather more than a few days.

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@OlaRosling

3 years

My father @HansRosling explained exponential growth like this. Omicron is of course different from Ebola in lots of ways, but the curve of infections follows the same logic which everyone should be familiar with by now:

Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

3 years

Up we go! @SwedishPM simply lets Omicron increase, hoping it’ll be safe. But nobody knows the fatality rate! Nobody knows how much Long-COVID it will cause! As long as the “evidence” isn’t certain our society fails to make a decision. As if that wasn’t a decision: To NOT decide.

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8 years

I claim Sweden should pioneer data literacy in public curriculum to hinder #factresistance (which is an old thing!)

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@OlaRosling

3 years

Up we go! @SwedishPM simply lets Omicron increase, hoping it’ll be safe. But nobody knows the fatality rate! Nobody knows how much Long-COVID it will cause! As long as the “evidence” isn’t certain our society fails to make a decision. As if that wasn’t a decision: To NOT decide.

Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

3 years

🇸🇪⬆️❗️My new year’s bet looks more and more plausible. Reported cases in Sweden continues to rise. As long as spread is not restricted, I guess this will continue, and not until the elderly starts dying will serious restrictions be imposed. Will we repeat this in 2023 as well?

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3 years

Imagine a wildfire being dealt with like authorities deal with Omicron: “We don’t know how much damage it will cause, so we’ll wait and see.”

Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

3 years

Up we go! @SwedishPM simply lets Omicron increase, hoping it’ll be safe. But nobody knows the fatality rate! Nobody knows how much Long-COVID it will cause! As long as the “evidence” isn’t certain our society fails to make a decision. As if that wasn’t a decision: To NOT decide.

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@OlaRosling

3 years

My New Year’s Bet: in 3 weeks time — current steep increase of infections has become increasing death tolls; — 🇸🇪 gov restricts visits to seniors; — Omicron is already inside care homes; — and we all ask @SwedishPM , are you incapable of learning what slow response leads to?

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@OlaRosling

8 years

A fact-based worldview requires a new curriculum. Not media's blame-game of buzzword cascades;"Post truth, Fake news, Allternative facts..."

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@OlaRosling

1 year

Kids today are losing hope for the future. My dad @HansRosling often said: "It's never too late to give up. So, we don't have to do that now." Watch @_HannahRitchie explain how we can become: the First Sustainable Generation!

Are we the last generation — or the first sustainable one?

The word "sustainability" gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie digs into the numbers behind...

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Hannah Ritchie

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My @TEDTalks is now online. I argue that we have the opportunity to build a world where we can all live well, and tackle our environmental problems at the same time. This is possible, but not inevitable. We have to push to make that a reality.

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7 years

What uncertain words mean in numbers. (Thanks @palace )

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@OlaRosling

4 years

I love @UN . Humanity needs a neutral global collaboration org! 😡 @andersen_inger please don't pollute UN's reputation with activist-magical-thinking. This statement can't possibly be "verified", nor evidence based: Corona as mother nature's revenge for other atrocities!

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In a way, nature is sending us a message with #COVID19 . We have pushed nature into a corner. -- @UNEP chief @andersen_inger says it is time for to us to take care of nature & adapt #ClimateAction policies to protect our planet.

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3 years

The people of Ukraine is defending the freedom of Europe by risking their lives! They are defending our freedom! Why are we NOT there helping them? Unforgivable! I’m ashamed! @SwedishPM

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@OlaRosling

7 years

Extracting data tables from pdfs is super easy with @TabulaPDF Thanks for building it! :)

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@OlaRosling

7 years

Beautiful German reaction to call for ”high degree of empathy”, after beating the only country that has hockey players on their dollar bills

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@OlaRosling

8 years

Hans would have loved reading this article after his death:

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@OlaRosling

6 years

More than two months on the New York Times bestseller list! #factfulness

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@OlaRosling

8 years

Show me the evidence that fact-resistane is increasing. Yes it's large, but is it really increasing? "Everebody knows it" is not evidence!

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@OlaRosling

4 years

Most people probably enjoy the feeling of “understanding”. I did too. But not anymore. I have come to realize it’s often just a temporary illusion of simplicity, a naive complacency from knowing a tiny bit more than one second earlier, which too easily cancels my curiosity.

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8 years

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” ― Daniel J. Boorstin

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6 years

@staffanlandin Varför läser du ”rasist”, när hon skriver religion/kultur? 500 000 vita evangelister från USA är väll en annan femma för ett abort-vänligt land, än motsvarande gäng holländare? Är följande ord synonymer för dig: Rasist, Kulturalist och Religionist? Inte för mig.

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@OlaRosling

4 years

Popularity is not a proxy for truth.

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@OlaRosling

8 years

Western media hardly mentioned Million muslims marched against Daesh!

You probably haven't heard about this Muslim pilgrimage in defiance of Isis

Isis has attacked the nearby city of Karbala using suicide bombers

www.independent.co.uk

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@OlaRosling

6 years

When an expert gives up trying to explain, you'll hear the desperate: "JUST TRUST ME!". That's how climate info often sounds, and it doesn't work. Most people don't like it because they are not stupid. We must explain what's happening" and stop wasting time on "trust us"!

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@OlaRosling

9 years

—Has UN gone mad? asks @HansRosling in @Gapminder 's new BBC-film, now available worldwide: http://t.co/IXvkMjUruw http://t.co/tzNOAdAw9P

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@OlaRosling

3 years

GOOD NEWS: Now 3 weeks after rapid Omicron surge in 🇿🇦, there’s NO rapid increase of deaths! Instead, deaths seems 10 times lower than Delta’s. BUT REMEMBER: If 10 times more spread result would be same. It burdens hospitals. Populations are different. Long-COVID rate is unknown!

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@OlaRosling

4 years

"When public authorities strive for analysis-monopoly, they create a fact-vacuum where wrong guesses thrive." I'm telling the Swedish Government to demand (and pay for) our regions to publish detailed Covid-data:

DEBATT: Publicera detaljerad data om covid-19 fritt på nätet

När myndigheter värnar sitt analysmonopol, uppstår ett faktavakuum i vilket felaktiga gissningar stortrivs. För att stoppa smittan behöver vi se detaljerad data. Regeringen bör därför använda sina...

www.expressen.se

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@OlaRosling

4 years

It’s like people don’t realize that a pandemic could be worse than this one. Much worse. Just imagine a virus that kills children. When that comes around, we’ll be thankful we had a chance to practice with #COVID19 . 🙏🏻

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4 years

What kind of humans are those? I can’t focus on the public health message. I just keep wondering: WHAT KIND OF TROUSERS ARE THESE GUYS WEARING AND WHY!? The Swedish obsession with gender neutrality has finally reached a perverted level!

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@OlaRosling

6 years

The story of PROGRESS is not fiction. It's a true story, belonging not to any tribe, but to all humans with the ability to reason, who agree that health is better than illness, freedom is better than coercion, knowledge is better than ignorance. @sapinker

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@OlaRosling

8 years

Mensa has few members as they require IQ top 2%. I emailed, informing them; if they accept top 50% they'd get more members. I got no answer.

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@OlaRosling

7 years

Often you can't convince someone they are wrong without first convincing them that you have understood their thinking.

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4 years

Why did we (western democracies) embrace the argument "Flatten the curve", instead of "Stop the virus"? China had shared its data with us. We knew it was very contagious. 1. We are too arrogant to learn from Asia. 2. We couldn't imagine, and still can't: WE must stop everything.

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@OlaRosling

9 years

The poorest billion have 5 children/family. The others just replace themselves. At 56:53 http://t.co/pONB4dq97F http://t.co/X4CSaKBQJ3

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4 years

Stop. Think twice. Shouldn’t you stop checking twitter right now and get a life instead? Hug someone (but not infect someone) or look out the window and smile. Remember: Your life is very short and Twitter Inc. will become rich without You donating you valuable hours on earth😀☠️

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@OlaRosling

7 years

Humans are collaborating better than ever on this planet!

Number of parties in multilateral environmental agreements

Total number of global parties signed on to multilateral agreements designed to address trans-boundary environmental issues.

ourworldindata.org

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@OlaRosling

3 years

🇸🇪⬆️❗️My new year’s bet looks more and more plausible. Reported cases in Sweden continues to rise. As long as spread is not restricted, I guess this will continue, and not until the elderly starts dying will serious restrictions be imposed. Will we repeat this in 2023 as well?

Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

3 years

My New Year’s Bet: in 3 weeks time — current steep increase of infections has become increasing death tolls; — 🇸🇪 gov restricts visits to seniors; — Omicron is already inside care homes; — and we all ask @SwedishPM , are you incapable of learning what slow response leads to?

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5 years

Human brains 🧠 quickly generate illusions of understanding. A mental ability that evolutionary enabled quick decisions without sufficient info. (Lions feasted on indecisive siblings stuck in ANALYSIS PARALYSIS.)But today, illusions of understanding pose a larger risk than lions.

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3 years

Yes!

Sam Dastyari

@samdastyari

6 years

So beautiful. Richard Curtis (Love actually / four weddings and a funeral / Bridget Jones).

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3 years

I love Sweden 🇸🇪

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@OlaRosling

5 years

Popularity is not a good measure of truthfulness.

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7 years

Since 70's : a decline of terror deaths in West Europe.

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4 years

For the liberal elite, tonight is a great introspection opportunity: If you feel certain @JoeBiden will win big, because you feel he has to, and then: he doesn’t, please make use of that experience and learn how useless our feelings and opinion bubbles are for predicting others.

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6 years

I deeply hate the expression ”the global south”! It’s just a misleading euphemism for ”poor countries” bundling them as one group with geographic destiny... It’s the ”divided world misconception” again! Read #factfulness

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@OlaRosling

9 years

In stereotypical Western-Mass-Media, Muslim can't celebrate X-mas. In reality in Nazareth: they started last week :)

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@OlaRosling

4 years

To remain humble, my father @HansRosling used this thought as his daily morning pray of thankfulness: “Thank you plumbers, for bringing me my daily hot clean water.” It warms my ❤️ to see you liked exactly those two pages from @factfulness ! 🌺

Michelle Moffat

@MichelleCMoffat

4 years

Loving @HansRosling , @OlaRosling & @AnnaGapminder ’s inspiring and hopeful @factfulness - this passage is so apt for these strange days... @TomWalkerJersey @MeganJMathias @steve1skelton @heaven_andrew @jrn216 @Tasha_jsy @MKMRogers @MarieClaireHan4 @DannyRaffio @MartinKnightJsy

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7 years

Yes please! All scientific papers to be free by 2020 under EU proposals

All scientific papers to be free by 2020 under EU proposals

Results of research supported by public and public-private funds set to be made freely available to all

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

Currently 8 year old girls in Syria don't go to school = don't learn to read and write, which means: future illiterate mothers and thereby higher child mortality, during 2028 to 2040 = an invisible future death toll of the ongoing war, which we should help put an end to ASAP!

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The burden on Swedish health care is soon gonna get worse, and already now Child ICUs are short of beds. Insisting that further spread should be prevented is NOT a doomsday prophecy and NOT fear mongering. I hate doomsday prophecies and fear mongering!

Platsbrist på barnintensiven i Göteborg: ”Måste välja patienter”

På barnintensiven på Drottning Silvias barnsjukhus är läget så ansträngt att svårt sjuka barn tvingas flytta till andra vårdavdelningar. Personalbrist gör att bara åtta iva-platser kan användas, och...

www.svt.se

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8 years

I'm stunned by my previous ignorance about the Arab world. Before reading this book, I thought I knew a bit about it

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6 years

Few people need Pythagoras! Everybody needs to manage risks. We all need to handle probabilities, games and gambling. We should teach Calculus second, and Statistics first. Let's upgrade numeric curricula to fit the digital age.

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Imagine Germans refering to Germany as "Europe". People of Latin America are tired of US citizens refering to USA; as "America".

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”In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.”

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3 years

Brave Russians protesting against #putinswar ♥️

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In #Novosibirsk , #Russia , local residents are marching in #protest of the Russian invasion of #Ukraine :

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Swedish MD describes her own #LongCovid experience, to confront the widespread categorical disrespect against victims. I personally know two other doctors who have suffered severe post-COVID for more than 20 months! @pwolodarski , did you see this:

Inside Science

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Lisa Norén

@noren_elisabeth

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Jag skriver i @kvartalet om hur det är att ha högst påtaglig #longcovid . Om konsekvenser av bristande kunskap och riktlinjer. Och om hoppet att någon forskar fram en lösning. Känner ni igen det från er själva, anhöriga, vänner? Sprid gärna.

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Don’t blame the Russian people! This is #putinswar . Help spread this evidence of thousands of Russian heroes arrested today when protesting against #putinswar , and help the rest of the world understand that the Russian people is NOT united against Ukraine. ♥️ 1/n

Alejandro Alvarez 🫡

@aletweetsnews

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Protests are erupting in several Russian cities tonight against Putin's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, along with attempts from police to forcibly suppress them. Here's his hometown of St. Petersburg. I'll be threading videos below as I find them.

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Some things can only be discovered through scientific research. While other things can never be discovered through scientific research.

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3 years

Long-COVID is real and researchers in Zürich might have found first clues predicting why some people get it:

Inside Science

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First time I realized that: ”The world will never become perfectly equal.” I was 21. I felt dispair. I then realized: The struggle for equality shouldn’t aim for perfect equality, but for MORE equality. A struggle that can be achieved in each case, but can never be completed.

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Pinciples and ideologies are like cakes 🎂 🧁 . I can’t eat them all and if I take one bite of each, people get mad at me. Too often we just pick one that looks good and swallow the whole thing, even though we would have done better without a cake and without an ideology.

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7 years

People laughed 16 y ago when @jimmy_wales reinvented Encyclopedia. Don’t laugh. It’s time for News to be reinvented

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3 years

The lesson we all should have learnt in 2021: By the time we hear about a new COVID variant in a country far away, it has already started spreading in our country. Good to know what to assume during 2022, when we will probably hear about new variants called Pi, Rho, Sigma & Tau.

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What if the invasion is a distraction…What if Putin’s friend Xi asked for a little favor, to help keep NATO troops busy in the west, so they won’t mess with him in Taiwan…

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@vincentrcrd @HansRosling @AnnaGapminder @sapinker And for those who still believe markets solve all problems, learn to control the #singleperspectiveinstinct by asking yourself why US has the highest health spending per capita, but the lowest life expectancy of the rich countries. ;) #factfulness

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Peace is the new thing. Not war. War has been around forever.

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@gad_media Please switch from Swedish to English @gad_media ! The world outside Sweden needs to consume your unique reports!🤗

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Great news! Chinese vaccination trial, started in April with 382 people tested: majority developed significant immune responses and No serious adverse reactions.

richard horton

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Here is a second COVID-19 vaccine trial, led by Chinese scientists. This recombinant adenovirus type-5 vaccine induces a rapid humoral and cellular immune response within 14 days. No serious adverse reactions. Again, congratulations to Feng-Cai Zhu et al.

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Wanna loose faith of in your mind? Wikipedia has 179 mental biases listed for you http://t.co/44rSKksbtB

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6 years

Fun way to prank a Nazi march: For every meter they walk you donate more money to an anti-extrimist org like @exitdeutschland See:

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Happy 2016! @Gapminder will soon announce Open source! :)

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Terrorists' goal is fear. Don't give it to them.Instead:solidarity with people of Yemen & Iraq who have this weekly;

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3 weeks is a holy COVID-number: roughly the average time from infection to death. 3 weeks ago, cases increased in 🇸🇪. Now deaths increase. I betted: Even if Omicron is MUCH milder, @SwedishPM will now tighten preventive restrictions, motivated by surging deaths…3 weeks too late.

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@OlaRosling

3 years

My New Year’s Bet: in 3 weeks time — current steep increase of infections has become increasing death tolls; — 🇸🇪 gov restricts visits to seniors; — Omicron is already inside care homes; — and we all ask @SwedishPM , are you incapable of learning what slow response leads to?

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:) HUMANITY HAS AN AMAZING ABILITY TO COLLABORATE! Just look at the increasing global vaccination coverage!

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We are drowning in a daily avalanche of pessimistic online news, creating an illusion of a constantly worsening world which ruins many people’s hope, for no good reason. @JacksonJodie21 explains why we need healthy news habits and what “news literacy” is :

Beyond fake news: how to heal a broken worldview | Jodie Jackson |...

The news paints a powerful and often painful picture of the world – But does this reflect our full reality? And might the world be better than we are led to ...

www.youtube.com

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Yes we told you 2 years ago: A pandemic is very likely. Just like the other four: finance collapse, World War III, climate crisis and extreme poverty. As long as people’s attention is consumed by mini-risks, we’ll fail to prevent the big global risks.

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The world is not as it seems. The ordinary world is invisible, in a flow of news events which are selected for being extraordinary.

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🐫➡️🐪 The world is better! Now I can do the laundry while listening to the audiobook ENLIGHTMENT NOW, where Steven ( @sapinker ) describs the graph I sent him of 2-humped cameI metamorphing into 1 hump when billions escaped extreme poverty! This was impossible a few years ago!

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@maddysavage @UlrikHaagerup @ConstructiveIn Fast food industry started serving healthier food when customers started demanding it! It’s time for the dramatic News to become healthier too!

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My job is to show a positive picture of a possible future world, without neglecting any problems. Everybody I meet seems to urgently need this, to regain their lost hope for humanity! What I don't understand is: — Why are so few people working on this exciting challenge?

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"We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off." - New York Times about Global Ignorance http://t.co/LIDsdE9maL

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@AndersWijkman @svtagenda Den rikaste miljarden (vi på nivå 4) släpper ut 64 ggr mer CO2 än den fattigaste. Att beskriva allmän ”befolkningsökning” som ”problemet” missar denna GIGANTISKA skillnad. Den grupp som snabbast måste byta beteende är inte ”dom”(förädrar i Afrika). Det är ”vi”:överkonsumenterna.

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"Fake News" = Buzzword of the month. But the spread of false facts is irrelevant compared to systematic misinterpretations of correct facts.

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Societal problems are complex evolving matters of life and death. They are not some kind of "team sports". If we let discussions turn into recruitment campaigns for supporter clubs with fixed opinions, then we stop learning from each other and from new evidence.

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

8 years

The wisdom of the crowd shouldn't be exaggerated. Only 5% think the world is getting better!

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

8 years

Great news (last october): China protects endangered Panda: population rises by nearly 17% !

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

6 years

My grandfather suffered from Parkinson's during the last ten years of his life. My father visited him every week. Today, Parkinson's looks just the same, but Science doesn't. Science is a true miracle!

Ali A. Rizvi

@aliamjadrizvi

6 years

So incredible, and so moving. A former Marine with Parkinson’s weeps as his tremor symptoms improve dramatically right in front of his eyes. Only science gives us true miracles. h/t @jay_shapiro #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

5 years

The greatest obstacle to discovery (and learning) is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

6 years

Dear @realDonaldTrump . What if China attacks US and people need to flee south. You probably thought of that. And your wall has one-way doors installed, right? So you can get out. But what if the Mexicans block the doors from outside? What's the plan? You're gonna ask them kindly?

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

5 years

Data tables in PDF files can easily be turned into Excel, with the free tool @TabulaPDF . Imagine a world with more people like @manuelaristaran , sharing their work for free! :)

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

8 years

"SAME SALARY FOR ALL SEXES!" shout Swedish kids learning to demonstrate for equality, IN SCHOOL at age 6. Grandma could never have guessed!

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

4 years

At last: GOOD NEWS FROM SWEDEN! This week's reported deaths is fastest weekly % decline so far. As we haven't change behaviours, nor imposed new restrictions, I guess this is all thanks to struggling staff in our extremely decentralised senior care home system. You did it! 💕

Gapminder

@Gapminder

4 years

When are Corona deaths GOOD news? If you follow the expected number this week, even the peak of the week might be really good news!

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

7 years

Europe is getting great! Thanks @realDonaldTrump , for scaring skilled labour (highly educated non-westeners) to move to Sweden!

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Ola Rosling

@OlaRosling

6 years

Not everything is getting better. Freedom is on reverse in many places. How to save democracy? @Yascha_Mounk gives no simple solutions, but he sure helped me see why nationalism must be tamed, not killed. Why populism is the essence of democracy, and it shouldn't be ridiculed.