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Matthew Cusick fine art. Painting, collage, drawing, and video work by artist Matthew Cusick.
Oh, the things you can do with maps!
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“As we’ve come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It’s hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century, but a study conducted in 1983 by the Rural Advancement Foundation International gave a clue to the scope of the problem. It compared USDA listings of seed varieties sold by commercial U.S. seed houses in 1903 with those in the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983. The survey, which included 66 crops, found that about 93 percent of the varieties had gone extinct. More up-to-date studies are needed.”
To show the other side of the issue, include this minor, yet crucial part of the article: “A 30-year-old plant pathologist named Norman Borlaug traveled to Mexico in 1944 to help fight a stem rust epidemic that had caused widespread famine. Crossing different wheat varieties from all over the world, he arrived at a rust-resistant, high-yield hybrid that helped India and Pakistan nearly double their wheat production—and saved a billion people from starvation. This so-called green revolution helped introduce modern industrialized agriculture to the developing world.”
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Many consumers don’t know much about the production of their food. Is your food Genetically modified? Organically produced? Learn how to know.
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The Mapping History Project has been designed to provide interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and/or illustrations of historical events, developments and dynamics. The material is copyrighted, but is open and available to academic users.
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Metro is debuting its “Rush Plus” service today. In honor of this, the latest step in Metro’s 34-year growth and evolution, here is an updated version of our popular animation showing the history of Metrorail service.
This is a nice, simple interactive feature showing the expansion of the transportation network in the Washington D.C. area.
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“A world map used by Erik Penser Bankaktiebolag to visualize economic markets. The map contains approximately 3,000 coins and every continent is built out of its countries’ currencies. Used in various medias during 2009.” If you look closely you will notice that the coins are from the region that they are cartographically representing. To see more by this artist, visit: http://www.penser.se/
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David Roberts is staff writer at Grist.org. In “Climate Change is Simple” he describes the causes and effects of climate change in blunt, plain terms. On Apr…
This is video is designed to explain climate change in 15 minutes. If you would like see the slides presented, you can see them at: http://grist.org/climate-change/climate-change-is-simple-we-do-something-or-were-screwed/
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Climate change has numerous casualities: the melting of the Arctic Sea ice is one such environment nightmare that’s a result of global warming (don’t worry Texans, you can just call it a “freak heat wave” or an “inexplicable anomaly”). But like all global processes, not all places are impacted equally. Even in an economic recession, some find fortune while the majority flounder. Same is true with the melting of the Artic; the melting might potentially open up the fabled Northwest Passage and create new, seasonal shipping lanes. Who would benefit from this? Who would suffer? To see a short video on this, see: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/09/melting-arctic-sea-ice-and-shipping-routes
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The social-science evidence is in: though it may benefit the adults
involved,
the dissolution of intact two-parent families is harmful to large numbers
of children.
On this Father’s Day, I’m thinking about the sociological importance of fathers and my gratitude for my father (an educator who instilled in me the desire to teach). Although this article is politically charged with an intentionally controversial title, “Dan Quayle was Right,” it points to solid social science evidence as to the importance of fathers within society. Conversely, fatherlessness also has major (negative) impacts society as well.
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