Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes!

How the income and life expectancy has changed in 200 countries for 200 years

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development.

Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes.

Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

Spring and Cork 2011

Looking back on it now, I've never shown my friends any pictures taken in Ireland. Even I don't use the tab to upload pictures on Facebook or Cyworld. That dosen't mean that I have a secret I want to keep on my own! I'm just lazy, that's it ;D

BUT! I possibly seem to have something fishy going on as some friends always say, I won't deny. You know what, I've been asked if I'm really in Ireland! haha Where could I be if I weren't here? I've been too quiet since I left Korea.

I'm in Cork, a peaceful, lovely, and beautiful city in Ireland. Everything is going so well, and I can't help thinking I'm the happiest person in the world.

So many people who don't have any idea about Cork have asked me what this city is like, but it's pretty hard for me to answer straightaway in deed. My experience and feelings I've got here cannot be explained by words.

But I'd like to share what I see by showing you roughly 50 pictures I took today.

"Spring and Cork"

Love Cork,
Love Ireland,
Love my life♥

We pray for Japan!

I don't know what's wrong with Japan these days. Terrible things are continuously happening. Earthquakes, the tsunami, the explosions of power plants..

When I heard about these horrible disasters for the first time, I couldn't help worrying about my Japanese friends in their country. Fortunately, they are all safe. Thanks, God! I'm relieved that they are alright.

At this moment, I'm in Ireland, so the only way to know what's going on in Japan is wait for news until night or search the Internet for articles myself.

I check out lots of articles about these disasters online everyday, and can see how much Koreans worry about our neighbor Japan by commenting with a number of supportive words. Those were written in Korean on Korean web sites, so probably only a few Japanese will see them.

But I would like all Japanese to know our concern for Japan and want to tell them '頑張ってください'! (I used the Google translator to write Japanese, so there could be a mistake!) That's why I made up my mind to post this in English.

Hope many Japanese can be hearten and encouraged by this post!

I'm sure that Japan will wisely get over these problems as they do well all the time. Everything will be find and better soon!

We pray for you, Japan.