{"id":465,"date":"2018-03-11T13:26:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/?p=465"},"modified":"2019-12-26T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T19:45:57","slug":"131-graphs-and-charts-from-enlightenment-now-by-steven-pinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armenshirvanian.com\/podcast\/131-graphs-and-charts-from-enlightenment-now-by-steven-pinker\/","title":{"rendered":"131: Graphs And Charts From Enlightenment Now By Steven Pinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Steven Pinker has a recent book called\u00a0<em>Enlightenment Now<\/em>\u00a0about progress<\/li>\n<li>it includes descriptions of humanity&#8217;s growth in wealth\/health\/life quality<\/li>\n<li>here I discussed some of the charts in it and what they represent<\/li>\n<li>includes content on global GDP changes and child mortality rates<\/li>\n<li>message of the book is that the baseline of the world population has 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