Holy crap! that looked dangerous...

and perversely fun.

That... that was BRILLIANT!

Not only is this a cool software for digging through statistics and put them in perspective, but it's also a web page.
www.gapminder.org

Fascinating toy.

Looks interesting, but unfortunately this kind of documentary mostly end up preaching to the choir. (so to speak)

I don't see a bible-thumping, God fearing follower to, first, sit through a movie like this and second, to think:
"Hmm, you know what? It may be a tad more complicated than the old God made us, told us what to do, then watches from then on with great displeasure as we constantly try to atone for the endless stream of sins we produce."

wtf? that reeked of laziness and left an aftertaste of
"The environment, yeah right"
If that's what's selling today, show how totally we are into it.

/shows how low they aim

Yeah, I love his style, sort of...

No, really, check out his 'Findings' in the related videos.

Gluing the reef back together is terribly misguided. It's not broken, it's dead.

Coming soon: Beautiful canadian tropical reefs.

Upvote by proxy from Douglas Adams, who would have approved very much, indeed.

Bravo for this man's courage, (assuming the flashing of ID makes it genuine) he's in for quite a storm of controversy.

But then again, from my point of view, he's just stating the obvious.

I wish there were more americans (especially military and 'patriots') who could just stop having other people's opinions and think for themselves.
Boot your government and every greedy, unelected leeches hanging around it and get right back to working on this 'land of the free' idea.

All aboard the Darwin express...

Fascinating!

Of course a responsible parent would have put a helmet on that kid.
And possibly some bubblewrap along the walls.

schmawy, I was wondering the same thing, "have I ever heard a sobbing translator before?" or did I just notice it this time?
Anyway, give this woman a check for effort!

Do not attempt if you are much bigger than a salamander.
To wit: Cheese Rolling

I don't know if he's faking, but the technique is real.
Other odd ways of lighting a fire are with an ice lens, polishing the
bottom of a soda can to make a parabolic mirror, and a crude piston to suddenly compress air at ignition temperatures..