Infographics showing the distribution of the Roman Catholic population in the world, where it has risen and fallen in recent years.
As mentioned earlier, a South American pope was a symbolic recognition of the demographic shift in the Church’s population away from Europe.
Tags: culture, religion, Christianity.
See on www.bbc.co.uk
(3rd UPDATE) The new leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics is expected to deliver a speech in an hour
The juxtaposition of the hypermodern coverage of the election of a new pope (with telecasts, social media, instantaneous global network coverage, etc.) with the archaic medieval rituals of the conclave (locked doors, smoke signals, etc.) is endlessly fascinating to me. Even in the 21st century, there is a place for the traditional. So who is Pope Francis? As the first South American pope, some feel this reflects the southern demographic shift within the Catholic Church. Also, click here for the science behind the white vs. black smoke.
Tags: culture, religion, Christianity.
See on www.rappler.com
Our bordering countries quiz contains a selection of trivia based on countries throughout the continents and their geographical relationship with one another.
See on www.quizfortune.com
International Women’s Day: political rights around the world mapped
This is late for International Women’s Day, but it is never a wrong time to analyze the spatial and temporal patterns of the expansion of women’s political rights. This interactive map is excellent for seeing these few metrics, but a more expanded dataset with maps concerning gender (in)equality in the world and the status of women is WomanStats.
Tags: gender, mapping, statistics, political.
See on www.guardian.co.uk
Two Yale architects pose the question in an ambitious research project.
“Hsiang and Mendis have increasingly come to believe that the only way to study and plan for our urban planet is to conceptualize its entire population in one seamless landscape – to picture 7 billion of us as if we all lived in a single, massive city.”
See on www.theatlanticcities.com
Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. …
Many of our first experiments of creating landforms and designing a new world started in the sandbox. This video shows how that early childhood activity can make for an excellent classroom demonstration to shows how Earth’s physical systems work. If you have a digital topographic map to superimpose on the sandbox and a GPU-based water simulation, then you’ve got this fantastic video. Click here to learn more about this UC Davis project on the visualization of lake ecosystems.
Tags: water, physical, geomorphology, landforms, visualization.
See on www.youtube.com
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Central Places:Theory and Applications produced by Ken Keller (kellek@danbury.k12.ct.us) adapted from Don Ziegler.
The Central Place Theory is a model that is not used much today in academic geography, but given it’s explicitly spatial nature, it is used in many geography curricula (including AP Human Geography) to show systems thinking and spatial patterns. This powerpoint goes over the main ideas of the theory developed by Walter Christaller as well as some examples.
See on www.slideshare.net
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