Beautiful Numbers
summary
Data from the UN and World Bank are used to make specific claims: democracy grows from one country in 1822 to 97 democracies worldwide, child mortality in one family falls from six dead children in the 18th century to near zero now, women’s suffrage reaches Austria in 1918 and nearly everywhere today, guitars rise from 22 to 11,000 per 100,000 people, leaf blowers emit as much CO2 as all passenger cars in California, and extreme poverty from 90% to 30% (COVID bumps it slightly). Visual tools include antique paintings cut into charts, lenticulars, embroidered portraits, printed espresso saucers and 120 glass insect mosaics on a Bentonville bike path.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:35The End of Democracy
- 3:08Media
- 3:53What really is good
- 5:42Death of a child
- 6:15Great grandparents
- 7:32Female voting
- 8:35Fashion line
- 10:02Global warming
- 11:22Leaf blowers
- 13:34Bicycle path
- 15:23Covid
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