{"id":2382,"date":"2009-04-17T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2014-11-15T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T01:55:39","slug":"friday-math-movie-the-miniature-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-miniature-earth-2382","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - The Miniature Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgRt\" style=\"width:280px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/04\/miniature-earth.jpg\" alt=\"miniature earth\" title=\"miniature earth\" width=\"276\" height=\"293\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Earth Day is coming up next week (on Wed 22nd Apr 2009).<\/p>\n<p>This week's math movie contemplates an Earth with a population of 100 people only. What could we say about those 100 people?<\/p>\n<p>This miniature Earth would have 61 Asians and 8 North Americans. Only one would come from Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and surrounding islands). Six people would own 59% of the wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The amount spent on the military is nothing short of disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>Here's the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy &mdash; and consider... <\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvTFKpIaQhM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-miniature-earth-2382#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-miniature-earth-2382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/04\/poverty.jpg\" alt=\"poverty\" title=\"poverty\" width=\"128\" height=\"109\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>What if the world only had 100 people? What would characterize such a world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[125,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}