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February 13, 2008 9:30 AM

Did You Know 2.0(Youtube 08:19) Facts about education, population, globalization.
posted by blue_beetle (6 comments total)

Apparently is this an updated Shift Happens [prev], is there anything substantially revised about it, or is the same random set of statistics without context or sources? Still, kind of neat in a Wired-Magazine-From-1999 kind of way...
posted by blahblahblah at 9:49 AM on February 13, 2008

You can major in Homeland Security?!?!
posted by Skorgu at 9:50 AM on February 13, 2008

Did you know 5 out of 4 people have a problem with fractions?
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 9:52 AM on February 13, 2008

It seems odd to suggest that education should be even more topical given that these things change so fast.
posted by Raoul de Noget at 9:57 AM on February 13, 2008

Did you know ...

In 2020 no one will be able to distinguish between "every day" and "everyday". Not many people can now.
posted by QuietDesperation at 11:14 AM on February 13, 2008

You maybe right, QuietDesperation.
posted by squirrel at 12:41 PM on February 13, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]