Hawaii, Kauai Island…where they shot the Jurassic Park…
Sometimes we all to see a fabulously gorgeous physical landscape and marvel at the beauty that is in this world. For some other amazing images, see this collection.
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Nielsen Prizm is a tool used by companies to analyze their customers spending habits, lifestyle choices and spatial patterns. Using their Zip Code Look Up feature, you can search any zip code to g…
This is an interesting glimpse into how market research analysts view neighborhoods, geography and spatial analysis. This economic and cultural data has a wide range of uses (albeit with some serious limitations).
Tags: socioeconomic, neighborhood, place, economic, consumption, spatial, mapping.
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For many albinos — born with a partial or total lack of pigment in their skin, hair and eyes — life is difficult, and that is particularly true in Tanzania, where they are attacked for their flesh, the result of superstitious beliefs.
This is not a typical look at the cultural roots of prejudice and discrimination. It isn’t racism per se (since albinism isn’t a racial category strictly speaking), but it does show prejudice that is linked to physical appearance. There are deeply rooted folk traditions that endanger the lives of African albinos as explained in this podcast. This photo gallery shows some of Tanzania’s albinos letting their light shine.
Tags: culture, racism, folk culture, Tanzania, Africa.
See on www.npr.org
This is more for the teachers than the students, but what is better than an interactive map displaying the locations where Johnny Cash has been while listening to him sing “I’ve Been Everywhere?” (Tech support: Use Google Chrome or Safari to play).
See on www.iainmullan.com
TODALSIGS is an acronym for remembering the most basic elements of good cartography. This interactive briefly explains what each of the letters represents and how it is connected to map-making. If this is either too advanced or too basic for your students, simply run an internet search for the term TODALSIGS to find many other lesson plans and resources that might be more applicable to your institution (including this example-rich slideshow).
See on www.msu.edu
Although these were designed specifically for GIS day during Geography Awareness Week, these 2 map-based treasure hunts from ESRI are excellent. The answer to the question will only pop up in you are zoomed in the the right region (SHIFT + Make a box = Zoom in to that area). These link will take you to the World Cities quiz and also to the Mountains quiz.
See on storymaps.esri.com
New rules announced last week to allow interceptions of ships in the South China Sea are raising concerns in the region, and in Washington, that simmering disputes with Southeast Asian countries over the waters will escalate.
According to this new announcement, Chinese ships would be allowed to search and repel foreign ships if they were engaged in illegal activities (but that is open to interpretation) if the ships were within the 12-nautical-mile zone surrounding islands that China claims. This makes the disputed territorial claims of China all the more at the center of this geopolitical maneuverings. Much of the South China Sea would then be under Chinese control if this announcement become the new reality.
Questions to Ponder: Why is China making this announcement? Is China within their rights to make this declaration? Who might oppose this?
See on www.nytimes.com
The Muslim Brotherhood has been gaining power in several countries since the Arab Spring. The rise of Islamist power in the Middle East is culturally and politically complex. This interactive lets the user click on selected countries to see how groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas are impacting them politically.
Tags: Middle East, religion, Islam, political.
See on www.theglobeandmail.com
This gallery has a fantastic set of images showing Brazil’s poor squatter settlements-the favelas.
See on www.behance.net
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