Remember H. Rosling
@HansRosling
The late Hans Rosling, Co-Founder of @Gapminder & Professor @GlobalHealthKI had many followers. I (@OlaRosling) maintain this account to commemorate Hans.
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What would Hans Rosling say about the current pandemic? @OlaRosling, participating in the first annual Rosling seminar 6 October, together with @melindagates @DrTedros and others, contemplates in an interview:
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Thanks everyone who help keeping Hans’ vision alive: fighting global misconceptions by spreading curiosity and humility and a fact-based worldview. Stay tuned at @factfulness and @Gapminder ♥️
/@OlaRosling
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3 years ago @HansRosling died. At least ones a week I dream he is back. In my dreams it was a misunderstanding and we laugh at it and keep working. In reality, we keep working. Me & ♥️@AnnaGapminder, & @Gapminder soon launching a new tool for @factfulness in practice. Stay tuned!
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ANNOUNCEMENT!
The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health is being built at the University of Washington!
This is the story we think Hans would have told:
/@OlaRosling
ANNOUNCED TODAY: "The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health" is the name of the new building on @UW read the press release here, with the story we think Hans would have told.
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Ebola in DRC needs unconventional methods, like in Liberia2014, where Hans was impressed by @mfallah1969’s leadership for building local trust; see #factfulness#. M now says “Distrust of authority, civil war and Ebola are a recipe for disaster”, @DrTedros
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Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC's Ebola outbreak. Here are some via @TC_Africa
Hans died 1 year ago while writing the book #Factfulness#. Order it here: Follow @gapminder carrying on Hans' legacy
Follow Hans's Memorial Ceremony live over webcast tonight Swedish time 5 PM /posted by @OlaRosling
Live webcast of Hans's Memorial Ceremony tomorrow Tuesday 5 PM Swe time, from Karolinska Institutet
Please follow @Gapminder for updates about our work for a fact-based worldview. Retweeted by @OlaRosling
Hans: "The world can't be understood without statistics. But the world can't be understood with statistics alone."
retweeted by @OlaRosling in memory of Hans
"Like Ganesha Rosling used unique ways to make his point"
Thanks @chidu77 honorable comparison, Hans loved pancakes
Thanks for excellent summary of the Ebola fight. Hans was so proud that he got the chance to work for the Liberian government! /@OlaRosling
"Africans have the skills and context to respond to their own challenges"- @HansRosling . Read more: #NHWPost#
How Rosling diagnosed the World Bank with DBHB (Data Base Hugging Disorder) and helped them cure themselves
by @tkb
Hans: "My favourite number is zero!"
Remembering #HansRosling#: friend, teacher, inspiration - UNICEF Connect
Seeing human lives in spreadsheets: @MaxCRoser pays tribute to the work of Hans Rosling and its impact @Gapminder
Hans: "It was the magic washing machine that made me a professor."
Hans :"I don't consider myself an optimist or a pessimist, but rather a possibilist."
Hans would have loved reading this article after his death:
"I'm not an optimist. I'm a serious possibilist." NYT obit of the great Hans Rosling.
For updates about the legacy of Hans's work as edutainer & the fact-based worldview, please follow @Gapminder
