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fun and and amazing facts about the united states and its history…
This is a great list of trivial, but insightful tidbit about the United States of America. Happy 4th of July!
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The weird, violent history of the Indo-Pakistani border.
Geography rarely makes sense without the added lens of history. This fantastic article chonicles the history of the geopolitical conflict between India and Pakistan, centering on the disputed Kashmir region. This border is tied into colonial, cultural, political and religious layers of identity. As one of the great unresolved issues of the colonial era, this standoff may loom large as India becomes increasingly significant on the global scale.
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‘Fascinating Places’ is a Facebook page that uploads a beautiful picture from somewhere around the world everyday. It’s great! This particular image is from Naunton, U.K. in the fabled Cotswolds which are fantastically quaint, dripping with 18th century pastoral charm.
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“Writing is a public act,” says New York teacher Ileana Jimenez, who encourages her students to blog.
Why should we have our students publicly produce information? Writing isn’t a solitary project; it is designed to engage with other minds and distinct perspectives.
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Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising conclus…
This is a great video to show students the amount of energy they use, both at an individual level and at the national scale (this video is from the U.K.) To ‘flip’ this Ted-Ed talk, visit it’s homepage at: http://ed.ted.com/on/MVwtmMV5
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President Obama and Mitt Romney are set to make appearances beginning Thursday at a major gathering of Latino officials and activists…
A core component of the 2012 U.S. presidential elections will be the demographic profile of both the Republican and Democratic Parties’ power base. For most of American history, the African-American population was the largest minority second to the Caucasian minority. Since the 2000 census, the Latino population has overtaken the African-American population as the largest minority in the U.S. How does this impact both parties? What are the strategies of both parties to appeal from a diverse set of voters? How does the immigration issue shape ‘identity politics?’
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More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers make up 83 percent of the population, and it’s growing every day. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward?
This NPR special series, NPR cities, is an acknowledgement of what we already knew: cities are becoming increasingly important. To understand humanity in the 21st century, we need to understand cities. Included in this marvelous feature are numerous podcasts, infographics and articles about urban themes such as transportation, cultural amenities, economic and neighborhood revitalization.
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“I just returned a few days ago from a great week in Cincinnati, reading AP Human Geography exams with 400 colleagues from all over the country. In our conversations during the reading, I’ve come across a number of these folks, many of them high school teachers, who are interested in using Twitter but have no idea where to start.
What I’m hoping to do in the next few entries is give a beginner’s guide to using Twitter, specifically geared toward folk who are completely lost at how to begin. I’ll also be working toward some ‘best practices’ once the basics are out of the way.”
If you are unconvinced that you should get on twitter (#aphg), see: http://www.creativeeducation.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/09/10-reasons-to-tweet/
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A map that has been making the rounds on the internet demonstrates how you can fit 7 major U.S. cities plus New York’s most famous borough within Los Angeles city limits.
So Los Angeles is big, but, LA’s spatial extent is in part due to it’s history with transportation (ripped out the streetcars to let the automobile and freeway take over). How do density and transportation affect cities?
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