“Half of Canada’s 33.5 million people live in the red part, the other in the yellow. More population divided maps (Source: reddit.com)”
Source: mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com
Land-wise, Canada one of the world’s biggest countries, but population-wise, most of it is quite barren. What geographic factors explain the population concentration and distribution in Canada?
Tags: Canada, map, North America.
At least a dozen countries have had attacks since the Islamic State, or ISIS, began to pursue a global strategy in the summer of 2014.
Source: www.nytimes.com
There are a series of maps in this article that put ISIS’s shift in targets into spatial context. This other set of maps shows how ISIS has expanded over time.
Tags: political, terrorism, conflict, geopolitics.
“GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and…creating a better future,” proclaimed Esri founder Jack Dangermond at the 2015 Esri User Conference.
Source: www.esri.com
If you haven’t discovered the power of geography or the power of GIS, this article from ArcNews is for you. If you need to convince others of the power of geography, this is for you to strengthen your case.
Tags: GIS, ESRI, mapping, cartography, geospatial, edtech, geography education, unit 1 GeoPrinciples.
“The evolving role of cities and regions presents planning challenges as urban areas are work to achieve particular social, economic and environmental goals. This video explores a range of cities to examine how fully integrated planning, design, engineering and management capabilities can help to improve cities.”
Tags: urban, planning, urbanism, architecture.
Source: www.youtube.com
“The attacks suggest that ISIS is being forced into ‘mainstream’ terrorism long before it had planned to and a terrible meeting of the minds between Al Qaeda and ISIS.”
Source: www.thenational.ae
This is more ‘instant analysis’ so take the conclusions with a grain of salt, but the idea that the strategic aims of ISIS (a.k.a.-IS, ISIL) and Al-Qaeda are starting to align is worth investing.
Tags: political, terrorism, conflict, geopolitics.
“How did Southern Californians come to treat their highway route numbers as if they were proper names?”
Source: www.kcet.org
I can’t say how delighted this native Southern Californian was to read this (and especially to rediscover the classic SNL skit). Despite living in Rhode Island, I retain this linguistic quirk that I subconsciously learned as a kid growing up in Southern California. This is a shibboleth of mine, a distinctive pronunciation, word choice, or manner of speaking that reveals something about the speaker (such as place of origin, ethnic background, or group membership).
Questions to Ponder: What are other shibboleths that you know? Do you use any?
Tags: California, language, transportation, toponyms.
The country’s future depends on keeping the holy river alive.
Source: www.newsweek.com
This article touches on very serious religious and environmental issues connected to the Ganges River. The Ganges is the sacred river of Hinduism and in part because the river valley is the most heavily populated region of India. Simultaneously, this holy river is an incredibly polluted river as it’s the watershed for a industrial region that with significant sanitation struggles; this is a great article of the environmental and cultural issues.
Tags: religion, South Asia, culture, Hinduism, pollution, industry, economic, environment, environment modify, unit 3 culture.
The Spanish region of Catalonia adopts a resolution supporting independence from Spain, but Spain’s PM says his government will challenge it.
Tags: Catalonia, Spain, political, devolution, autonomy, Europe, culture.
Source: www.bbc.com
DEMOGRAPHICS OF HOMELESS VETERANS
12% of the homeless adult population are veterans
20% of the male homeless population are veterans
68% reside in principal cities
51% of individual homeless veterans have disabilities
50% have serious mental illness
70% have substance abuse problems
Source: nchv.org
Things to remember on Veteran’s Day…homelessness is a major problem for the urban geography of most American cities and veterans are disproportionately affected. Let’s remember them on the 364 other days of the year too.
GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION 