Factfulness, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling RönnlundWhen asked simple questions about global trends what percentage of the world's population lives in poverty, why the world's population is increasing, how many girls finish school we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanze choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, investment bankers, and Nobel laureates and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED

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and why electric cars aren't as great as we think (yet)

her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage

and the wish that we could have just one more day with a lost loved one

the setup is this: The members of a university detective-fiction club

The novel unfolds through his letters to his beloved mother in China

Finnegan started surfing as a child

and cutting through the bullsh*t cycle of self-sabotage to get happy and stay that way

Covering a range of numerical and verbal skills

When the original Thai version of Letters from Thailand appeared in Bangkok in 1969

and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation

Wielding his pen like a flaming broadsword