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A Visual History of Human Knowledge | Manuel Lima | TED Talks

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Antonio Bell

Over the past 10 years, I’ve been researching the way people organize and visualize information. And I’ve noticed an interesting shift. For a long period of time, we believed in a natural ranking order in the world around us, also known as the great chain of being, or “Scala naturae” in Latin, a top-down structure […]

How economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson

Posted on September 7, 2019 by Antonio Bell

You all know the truth of what I’m going to say. I think the intuition that inequality is divisive and socially corrosive has been around since before the French Revolution. What’s changed is we now can look at the evidence, we can compare societies, more and less equal societies, and see what inequality does. I’m […]