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Folk cultures are often described as regionally based, nearly homogeneous, rural cultures. These societies are typically dominated by the older generation, traditional, family-based and slow to change. This is an audio-visually rich collage showing a classic example of a folk culture being confronted by the forces of a changing world.
“The largest earthquake ever recorded by instruments struck southern Chile on May 22, 1960. This 9.5 magnitude earthquake generated a tsunami that crossed the Pacific Ocean, killing as many as 2000 people in Chile and Peru, 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii, and 142 people in Japan as well as causing damage in the Marquesas Islands (Fr. Polynesia), Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, and in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. To see how this tsunami compares with two recent tsunamis from Chile, please watch http://youtu.be/qoxTC3vIF1U “
Tags: physical, geomorphology, water, tectonics, disasters, video.
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“The west’s failure has already fueled Syria’s dirty war. Now it needs to address how we got here, the endgame, the legality and the global implications before it asks for permission to shoot.”
Source: www.theguardian.com
I think we’ve all heard someone say something along the lines of “why doesn’t someone just take them out/bomb them?” about ISIS or Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad. As is often the case, it’s not that simple to remove a thorn as actions can have reverberating consequences. Here are three articles to consider when discussing the merits/feasibility of military intervention in Syria:
Tags: Syria, war, conflict, political, geopolitics.
Hidden beneath the 245,000 square miles that make up the Great Plains, resides a lake that’s one of our greatest water assets: The Ogallala Aquifer. Haven’t heard of it? Farming the plains would be unprofitable at best without it, as shown by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. At the time, the aquifer’s existence was known, but the technology to tap into it wasn’t.
Source: maps101blog.com
Portions of the High Plains Aquifer are rapidly being depleted by farmers who are pumping too much water to irrigate their crops, particularly in the southern half in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. This podcast explores the environmental and economic impacts of this unsustainable situation.
Tags: water, agriculture, environment, consumption, resources, environment depend, podcast.
Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Known as Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Llanfair PG and Llanfairpwll, the small community of 3,000 on the island of Anglesey has the longest single word toponym (place name) in Europe. The name means “Saint Mary’s Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave.”
The longest toponym in the world is a New Zealand hill named Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Tags: place, language, toponyms.
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“With its combination of modernity and poverty, Mexico provides lessons for all emerging markets.”
Source: www.economist.com
This article from the Economist highlights the struggles in emerging economies to ‘bridge the gap between a globalized minority and an impoverished majority.’ The four lessons of Mexico in that article are:
Tags: Mexico, industry, economic, development.
“Over one million people in sub-Saharan Africa will contract malaria this year because they live near a large dam, according to a new study which, for the first time, has correlated the location of large dams with the incidence of malaria and quantified impacts across the region. The study finds that construction of an expected 78 major new dams in sub-Saharan Africa over the next few years will lead to an additional 56,000 malaria cases annually.”
Source: medicalxpress.com
Medical geography explores the patterns and impacts of diseases; physical geography (temperature and precipitation) and human geography (development, standard of living, etc) both shape these patterns. This article is a good example of how both play key roles since the distribution of mosquitoes is a critical component in the geography of development.
Tags: medical, diffusion, Africa, development, infrastructure.
“Cocoa, coffee and minerals are especially vulnerable to the weather pattern first named by Peruvian fishermen.”
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Geography is all about the finding the connections between seemingly unrelated issues. The geography of coffee is connected to weather, cultural, economic and many other geographies.
Tags: environment, resources, economic, weather and climate, agriculture.
The desperate men, women, and children flooding into Europe from the Middle East and Africa are not the only people moving along ever-shifting and dangerous migration routes.
Last year saw the highest levels of global forced displacement on record—59.5 million individuals left their homes in 2014 due to “persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations” according to the United Nations. That’s 8.3 million more people than the year before.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
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