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This is the best news I've heard in weeks. What a great milestone and a wonderful world we live in. Congrats to all the NGOs, African and international, that wo

• lucb1e 6y ago
  For more uplifting news, I spent a few hours today diving into figures about human development for a small project about greatest differences between neighbouring countries. They're basically all going up. Aside from countries at war (e.g. Syria) and minor setbacks like 2008, we're doing better all the time. I actually made a wallpaper from one of them: https://lucb1e.com/tmp/hn-whatsthisgraph.png https://lucb1e.com/tmp/hn-whatsthisgraph.png What does this show? Answer in rot13: Rnpu yvar vf n pbhagel, fubjvat yvsr rkcrpgnapl ng ovegu. Gurer ner fbzr boivbhf bhgyvref ohg 'orgjrra gur yvarf' vf nyfb n pbhagel gung qrpyvarq funecyl: Flevn. Yrg'f whfg abg qb jne ntnva, 'xnl? You can find this graph interactively on the United Nations Development Programme website: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data http://hdr.undp.org/en/data (this graph can be found in (rot13) urnygu -> yvsr rkcrpgnapl ng ovegu).