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Langue English
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Crée / Actualisé 09.06.2017 / 15.06.2017
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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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