{"id":147,"date":"2008-11-02T20:36:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2020-11-04T00:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:58:17","slug":"world-mapper-a-different-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/world-mapper-a-different-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"World Mapper: A different perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few days ago, I received an email with this website (thx Isabel), with the tag line: &#8220;The world as you&#8217;ve never seen it before&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmapper.org\/\">http:\/\/www.worldmapper.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poverty.png\" alt=\"World Poverty\" class=\"wp-image-149\" title=\"World Poverty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poverty.png 512w, https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poverty-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This site&nbsp;has a huge database with maps, correlating&nbsp;several indicators, population density and countries dimensions. It&nbsp;reminded me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html\">brilliant talk<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Rosling\">Hans Roling<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\">TED<\/a>.&nbsp;It&#8217;s hard to understand the huge gap between the countries in many indicators. The question is: what can <em>you<\/em> do to change the situation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I received an email with this website (thx Isabel), with the tag line: &#8220;The world as you&#8217;ve never seen it before&#8221;: http:\/\/www.worldmapper.org\/ This site&nbsp;has a huge database with maps, correlating&nbsp;several indicators, population density and countries dimensions. It&nbsp;reminded me a brilliant talk by Hans Roling on TED.&nbsp;It&#8217;s hard to understand the huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}