“Self-taught Iranian photographer gains rare access to shoot religious buildings as they’ve never been seen. It’s a side of Iran the rest of the world doesn’t normally get to see — the kaleidoscopically brilliant interiors of the country’s intricately designed mosques.With beautiful mosaics and stained glass framed by powerful architecture, the buildings are astounding.”
Tags: religion, culture, Islam, Iran, Middle East.
Source: edition.cnn.com
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While this Minute Earth video might make geomorphology experts cringe at some of the vocabulary in this, it still is a good introduction to the absolute basics of fluvial geomorphology, or how and why rivers reshape the Earth.
Tags: physical, fluvial, geomorphology, erosion, landscape.
Conflict Kitchen is an art project based in the centre of Pittsburgh which serves food from countries with which the US is ‘in conflict’. The founders get to define what conflict means – it can range from outright war to economic sanctions – and since opening in 2010 they have prepared food from Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba. But the restaurant’s latest choice of cuisine, Palestinian food, has caused controversy in the city and even led to a death threat which temporarily closed the venue. Critics pointed out that the US is not in conflict with the Palestinian people. They claimed that the pamphlets served with the dishes included ‘anti-Israel’ propaganda. But Conflict Kitchen’s founders said the project was designed to encourage debate among Americans.”
Source: www.bbc.com
Questions to Ponder: What do you think the purpose of Conflict Kitchen is for the restaurant owners? Many people choose restaurants for a cultural experience; what type of cultural experiences are these patrons searching for by eating at Conflict Kitchen? What political overtones are there to these cultural encounters? Is this a form of ‘gastro-diplomacy?’
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While this Minute Earth video might make geomorphology experts cringe at some of the vocabulary in this, it still is a good introduction to the absolute basics of fluvial geomorphology, or how and why rivers reshape the Earth.
Tags: physical, fluvial, geomorphology, erosion, landscape.
There are some beautiful images and places to be discovered through this quiz. This set of aerial photographs challenges the reader to guess the country where the image was taken; even with two options, it’s quite challenging. This forces the reader to use context clues in the physical and human landscapes to make an education guess. If you are looking for more, here is an additional quiz. To explore more Google Earth images, Stratocam is a great place to start.
Source: qz.com
Tags: landscape, remote sensing, geospatial, trivia, games.
“Each student should have a large piece of butcher block paper (15×20). They should use a pencil for this activity (color pencils are optional). Using the template provided, each student should make their own template. It is crucial that size for each of the ‘characters’ in the city be the same. As you read each of the Rounds, your pace should increase so that by Round 15 the students will only have a short time to draw their buildings.”
Source: geographyeducation.org
In this game, you simulate the industrial revolution and have your students design a village that, after 20 rounds of the simulation, will grow to a full-fledged city. Various teachers have adapted the rules for this game and here are some variants that are saved as a standard webpage, Microsoft Word file, PDF, Powerpoint and Prezi formats.
Tags: urban, planning, industry, economic, historical.
Source: prezi.com
This Prezi was created by students from the Syracuse Geography Department as part of a Senior Seminar to explain the disciple, the major and its utility. This is a great recap of the discipline, the major and it’s utility.
Tags: geo-inspiration, geography education, spatial, unit 1 Geoprinciples.
A new and potentially more revealing way of studying how animal evolution is affected by the geography of climate has been designed by researchers at The University of Nottingham and Harvard University.
Source: www.heritagedaily.com
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Earth is changing rapidly, and an increasing number of scientists say that humans have become the dominant force driving these changes. While the term has no formal definition, many agree that we are now living in an age shaped by human activity: the Anthropocene.
Evidence for the Anthropocene ranges from worldwide population booms to the expansive transformation of the landscape. But solutions are cropping up at the local level that could help create a more resilient global community.”
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
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