Hans Rosling died today of pancreatic cancer. What a loss!
If you have never watched any of his videos, these are the two main ones I recommend:
1. The washing machine. 9 minutes. And here’s my own reminiscence about my mother hand washing clothes at our summer cottage.
2. The increase in world per capita income and life expectancy. Under 5 minutes.
Here’s a beautiful recent piece on him in Nature.
HT2 Steve Horwitz.