{"id":6312,"date":"2011-08-05T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2013-02-10T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T10:51:48","slug":"friday-math-movie-the-rice-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-rice-show-6312","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: The Rice Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a novel way to present population statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Use one grain of rice to represent one person. This can be a striking way to show population density, effects of climate change or the number of deaths due to smoking.<\/p>\n<p>There was one version of The Rice Show in Stuttgart where the whole world population was represented by 104 tonnes of rice.<\/p>\n<h2>Of All the People in All the World - USA<\/h2>\n<p>Here's one version of The Rice Show, as designed by students at Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the OMG lecturer from Wesleyan in this clip - should be more of them!<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93mZEykLdFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-rice-show-6312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Rice Show - representing populations using rice\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/07\/rice-show.jpg\" title=\"The Rice Show - representing populations using rice\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" border\"0\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Using the scale of one grain of rice to one person, The Rice Show represents population statistics in a way you've never seen before.<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312"}],"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=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}