After several injuries Brazilian pianist João Carlos Martins lost the ability to move his fingers.
Then – after more than two decades of not being able to play – a pair of bionic gloves gave him back his abilities to play the piano.
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Max Roser
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Max Roser
@MaxCRoser
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Founder of @OurWorldInData / Professor at @UniofOxford's @BlavatnikSchool
- In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog. The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.
- Average incomes in Sweden have doubled while CO2 emissions have halved.
- The population of the US is 330 million The population of the EU is 446 million [source ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-…]
- Israel has now vaccinated more than a million people. More than 10% of the country’s population. Other countries take holidays and keep the vaccines waiting in the freezers while their populations are stuck in lockdowns and their people die by the thousands.
- 1/ Many of you ask me why I take the COVID-19 outbreak so seriously. Current numbers of cases and deaths are *not* why. 👇 A thread on why I’m worried and what I do personally in this situation.
- I think the visualization teams in many media outlets need to rethink how they map the war. Most do maps like the one on the left. But that is not reflecting their own reporting. There aren't entire *areas* that are 'under control'. On the right is a more accurate alternative.
- More and more countries achieve to decouple economic growth from CO₂ emissions. Just made this new chart that shows the evidence for 25 countries. Growth is up, emissions down.
- Important very good news from Africa: the continent has eliminated wild polio and today Africa will be declared polio free.
- Very good news from Israel Outcomes among 523,000 fully vaccinated Israelis: Only 544 cases Only 4 of which were severe And 0 deaths
- Different German cities made masks mandatory at different points in time. This study uses a synthetic control methodology and finds that requiring face masks to be worn decreased the growth rate of COVID-19 cases by about 40% in Germany. voxeu.org/article/unmask…
- The Economist journalists updated their a model of the true death toll of the pandemic, corrected for underreporting. They come to the conclusion that 15.2 million have died, more than 3-times the official toll of 4.6m. This map shows the distribution of the death rate.
