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This strangely beautiful map shows every tornado to hit the U.S. between 1950 and 2011. What physical geographic factors lead to this distribution? What are the impacts of this data on human geography?
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In a borough that has become a globally recognized icon of cool, residents are watching the renaissance with resentment and indifference.
Gentrification is inherently selective and consequently the impact is highly variable even among close neighborhoods. What makes one nieghborhood a candidate for gentrification? What qualities do neighborhoods of disinvestment share? Who are the ‘winners and losers’ in this process?
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After two decades in online teaching in both the corporate world and higher education, I regret to report that the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side of the network connection.
Just having the class online does not ensure it’s success. Here are a few helpful tips on what teaching style helps facilitate online learning.
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Tourism Concern fights exploitation in the global tourism industry. We are an independent, non-industry based, UK charity.
This is another way to conceptualize the geographic impacts of tourism. Wealthy tourists from developed countries spend their money in less developed countries, creating a power imbalance within the local community between locals and tourists. Local absolutely need the tourists dollars but these funds come and a social and environmental cost. Tourists use far more local resources per capita than the local residents, one reason why some refer to tourism as an ‘irritant industry.’ What other forms of social friction can arise from tourism? For a more detailed response to this situation see this news article in the Guardian.
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Yeah, it’s a commercial, but it’s really cool.
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Meet the “hairy Ainu” of Japan, Taiwan’s Saaroa, the Kusunda of Nepal, the last Manchus and the Jarawa of India’s Andaman Islands.
The rapid spread of Mandarin, English, Spanish, Hindi-Urdu and Arabic as the 5 largest languages (most native speakers) is connected to the spread of globalization and the cultural aspects of that phenomenon. These 5 declining languages represent the flip side of those cultural patterns.
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Looking for Jim Morrison’s grave? There are countless famous people buried in Paris’ most famous cemetery. This virtual tour is as close as most of us will get to exploring it this school year.
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Despite the country’s claims to be a sleek 21st-century meritocracy, the habits of centuries of discrimination and social exclusion are not so easily shaken.
India is modernizing at a rapid pace, but some old class problems rooted in the caste system are still visible. This is part of a large series called “Breaking Caste” with some excellent videos, articles and personal vignettes to humanize the struggles of those at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
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