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This set of flashcards helps learners of English at the university level. It focuses on vocabulary and expressions related to architecture, global development, and social issues, with key terms like "bamboo," "population growth," and "economic feasibility." The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to switch between languages for comprehensive practice. Ideal for students and professionals, it aids in expanding vocabulary and understanding complex topics, supporting intermediate to advanced learners in their language journey.
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Thomas Piketty - What factors influence(d) the balance between r and g?

Industrial growht not so much, but the war shocks, reconstructions

Thomas Piketty - What has been the growth rate of top global walth from 1987 to 2013?

6% as opposed to 2% of normal wealth holders
Thomas Piketty - What measures does Piketty suggest for closing the gap betweend different groups?

Progressive taxation

Mark Pagel - What does Mark Pagel compare language to?

Remote control from a tv

Mark Pagel - What does the 'Tower of Babel' story from the Bible illustrate?

A fabel and warning of the power of languagt

Mark Pagel - What is the 'irony of language?

They prevent us from communicating
Mark Pagel - What does the use of tools by monkey illustrate?

No social learning

Mark Pagel - What does the story of 40'000 generations of 'Homo Errectus' show?

No progress, limited social learning

Mark Pagel - What advantages do human beings have over other species?

Ability to leran, benefit from others ideas, imitate by watching, cumulative cultural daptation

Mark Pagel - When did 'social learning' start, and how did it star?

200'000 years ago, resolution of a dilemma
Mark Pagel - What was the 'human turning point' or the dilemma of humans?

Social learning = visual theft, hide or share your best ideas

Mark Pagel - What is the funciton of language?

Resolve this conflict, two options: stick to small group or share with wider society

Mark Pagel - What does the story about the arrow-head maker and the shaft maker show?

Communication allows thm to make the perfect arrows

Mark Pagel - Apart from fostering cooperation, what other function does language have?

Langueage are also there to draw rings around a community, protect it's identity
Mark Pagel - What does Mark Pagel seem to suggest with his presentation of an EU-conference with 23 languages?

They would be more efficient if sticking to one language, it's too expensive

Mark Pagel - What does Pagel suggest will happen to the languages?

In our modern , globalised world, we will have to standadise language as well, There will only be one language in the future

Robert Hamond - What is/was a High Line?

Was an elevated railway line which transformed in a public park

Robert Hamond - What was the job of the Wes Side Cowboy?

Runs in front of the train
Robert Hamond - How did Robert Hammond get involved with the High Line Project?

He met a friend at a community board meeting and they decided to do a project togehter

Robert Hamond - What is the aim of the Friends of the High Line

Protect the highline, and turn into a park

Robert Hamond - What is a 'wildscape'?

Untouched nature in a landscape

Robert Hamond - What is an exonomic feasibility study?

Economic analysis if it makes sense to build
Robert Hamond - How did they get the city to support them?

They realized it generates increased taxes

Robert Hamond - How was the idea of the old billboards (advertisment posters) integrated into the desing?

Framing people in vies of the city

Robert Hamond - What was Robert Hammond afraid of when they started the project?

That the wildscape would be destroyed

Robert Hamond - What was his reaction to the finished project?

He loved it

Hans Rosling - What did the UN do with their databases?

Full acces to th databases in the web

Hans Rosling - What happened to many children in the 19th century?

a lot of children died, high child mortality

Hans Rosling - What's happening in emerging economies today? And who are they?

Asian, South America, Brazil, China etc. They have good helath but not so good economy

Hans Rosling - What is the car race about?

Social and economic progress of Japan, Sween and USA. Japan won the race

Hans Rosling - What does Rosling's family history show?

Every generation imporves child mortality

Hans Rosling - What are the issues that the global leaders discuss?

Climat Change, who is responsible, who has to reduce most

Hans Rosling - What does Doller Street visualise?

How people live compare to their income?

Hans Rosling - How do you get information in Africa?

You have to live with the people

Hans Rosling - What's the difference between means and goals of development?

Means: Instrument on how to reach a goal, goal: is what do you wnat to reacht

Hans Rosling - What is the most important menasn?

Economics

Hans Rosling - What is the most important goals?

Human rights and culture

Hans Rosling2 - What has Rosling developed from (presentation technique)?

Digital to analogue

Hans Rosling2 - What was the world like in 1960?

3 billion, west and the rest

Hans Rosling2 - What does Rosling think about the mindset of 'West and the rest'?

World has changed, is outdated, we need to upgrade

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