{"id":454,"date":"2012-05-30T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2012-05-30T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T11:00:48","slug":"ted-hans-rosling-religions-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/ted-hans-rosling-religions-and-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"TED: Hans Rosling &#8211; Religions and Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heh, Hans Rosling did it again&#8230; fascinating stats and explaining world&#8217;s population growth (the big fill-up) with some leftover boxes.<br \/>\n<object width=\"526\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2012S\/Blank\/HansRosling_2012S-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/HansRosling_2012S-embed.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1455&#038;lang=&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=hans_rosling_religions_and_babies;year=2012;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;event=TEDxSummit;tag=data;tag=global+issues;tag=population;tag=presentation;tag=religion;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh, Hans Rosling did it again&#8230; fascinating stats and explaining world&#8217;s population growth (the big fill-up) with some leftover boxes. http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,123,126,141,155,159,161,185,188],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pYA5n-7k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":260,"url":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/datavizandopendata\/","url_meta":{"origin":454,"position":0},"title":"Beautiful data visualizations and why we need open data","date":"2010-10-06","format":false,"excerpt":"Today when I attended a talk at LWA 2010 I remembered a nice talk about beautiful data visualization by Hans Rosling, that I want to share with you (it's worth the time): When I searched for this talk I also came across the follwing two, the one above is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"open data\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":483,"url":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/ted-ian-ritchie-the-day-i-turned-down-tim-berners-lee\/","url_meta":{"origin":454,"position":1},"title":"TED: Ian Ritchie - The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee","date":"2012-06-18","format":false,"excerpt":"Short talk by Ian Ritchie who in a retrospective wouldn't have turned TimBL down, i guess. 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