Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Last year, Gates recommended Steven Pinker's book 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined' to graduates, saying it was the 'most inspiring' book he's ever read. epub format should be compatible with most web browsers. From there, they can fill out their name, list their affiliated (and accredited) college or university and download the e-book. To down the book, students can visit his blog Gates Notes to sign up for an account. The free download is available starting Tuesday through at least Friday, according to a spokesperson for Gates. 'The world would be a better place if literally millions of people read the book.'

'It covers a space that isn't easy to go learn about,' he added. In a YouTube video posted in April, Gates called it 'one of the most educational books I've ever read.' This isn't the first time he's praised the book. Gates said he agrees with this advice and encouraged graduates to 'learn to think, and act, factfully.' Related: Bill Gates invests $80 million to build Arizona smart city He believes we rely too much on a set of emotion-fueled 'instincts' to frame the state of the world, painting a much gloomier-than-reality picture of everything from global education to healthcare and natural disasters.'When we have a fact-based worldview we can see that the world is not as bad as it seems - and we can see what we have to do to keep making it better,' Rosling writes in the book. He wants us to know that statistically speaking, things aren't as bad as we might think. Gates called it 'one of the most educational books I've ever read.' and said the world would be better if millions of others read it, too.įactfulness is Rosling's final attempt to change the fatalistic ways that he says most people view the world. Rosling died of pancreatic cancer last year, bit his book is out post-mortem, after his son and daughter-in-law finished the final pages for him. His new resolution to eradicate 'developing' and 'developed' from his vocabulary was spurred by the release of the book 'Factfulness,' written by his good friend and Swedish statistician Hans Rosling. ' I talk about the developed and developing world all the time, but I shouldn’t,' Gates wrote in a new blog post this week. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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