To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Hans Rosling on the State of the World
How has the world changed in our lifetimes? It is getting better. Hans Rosling has some of the statistics and a wonderful way of presenting them. There is some real wisdom in what he has to say and nobody says it better. Check this out -- you will be wiser for it, and if you are in the business of presenting information to people, you could find much worse models than Hans Rosling.
Check out other talks by him here. Watch and learn.