{"id":1939,"date":"2008-10-24T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T22:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/10\/24\/where-wars-kill-people\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T22:16:30","slug":"where-wars-kill-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/where-wars-kill-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Wars Kill People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/worldsfair\/2008\/10\/look_at_the_size_of_us_nukes_a.php\">The World&#8217;s Fair<\/a> links to a great site at Telegraph.co.uk:  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/picturegalleries\/3109042\/The-Atlas-of-the-Real-World.html\">Atlas of the Real World<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a set of world maps (really cartograms), with the area of countries proportional to something more interesting than the mere land area &#8212; number of nuclear weapons, wealth in the year 1, and so on.  Here is one to chew over:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/picturegalleries\/3109042\/The-Atlas-of-the-Real-World.html?image=15\">number of war deaths in the years since WWII<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/picturegalleries\/3109042\/The-Atlas-of-the-Real-World.html?image=15'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/map319_1001339i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1981\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.  Latin America shows up just a bit.  The big orange country in Asia is China, not Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World&#8217;s Fair links to a great site at Telegraph.co.uk: the Atlas of the Real World. It&#8217;s a set of world maps (really cartograms), with the area of countries proportional to something more interesting than the mere land area &#8212; number of nuclear weapons, wealth in the year 1, and so on. Here is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}