Earlier this year, Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, delivered the 2008 International Health Lecture for the Academy of Medical Sciences in London, a lecture entitled “A factbased world view”. Rosling co-founded the Gapminder project (http://www. gapminder.org/): animated software that makes a multitude of quantitative datasets visible and mean...

My article addresses the qualities of “good” literature and how an understanding of the nature of literary devices, so-called “literariness”, can enhance the reading experience. Focusing on Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (2018), I discuss some of the most important features of good writing. Six literary devices have been selected for special attention: point of view, tone, amplification, anecdotes,...

Citation: Moreau D (2015) When seeing is learning: dynamic and interactive visualizations to teach statistical concepts. Front. Psychol. 6:342. When Seeing is Learning: Dynamic and Interactive Visualizations to Teach Statistical Concepts " So, how would I use statistics in psychological research? First of all, descriptively. " – Jacob Cohen (1990), p. 1310. Jacob Cohen, one of the greatest stat...

Schadt and Rosling (Technical Comment, 26 June 2015, p. 1438) argue that primer-template mismatches neglected the fungal class Archaeorhizomycetes in a global soil survey. Amplicon-based metabarcoding of nine barcode-primer pair combinations and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-free shotgun metagenomics revealed that barcode and primer choice and PCR bias drive the diversity and composition of m...

The Partiality of the Democracy of the Moderns Analysis of the theory of modern representative systems (which in the twentieth century ended up being called “democracies”), whether it be Hans Kelsen’s or Joseph Schumpeter’s, makes it possible to say – simplifying a little – that what has been called democracy of the moderns consists of the following: in competitive and regular elections, citize...

Hans Hüttel, Aalborg University Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon Luís Caires, New University of Lisbon Marco Carbone, ITU Copenhagen Pierre-Malo Deniélou, Royal Holloway, University of London Dimitris Mostrous, University of Lisbon Luca Padovani, University of Turin António Ravara, New University of Lisbon Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester...