Central Asia is full of lands whose names end in -stan. A certain powerful North American country has a related name. How? It’s not your standard explanation…
Source: www.youtube.com
This video (with a similar style to CGP Grey’s videos) charts the cultural and geographic impact of one of the most important toponyms, -stan. It also alludes to the fascinating history behind the name of Pakistan.
Tags: Central Asia, language, toponyms, historical, Pakistan, culture, diffusion.
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“For months, publishing giant HarperCollins has been selling an atlas it says was developed specifically for schools in the Middle East. It trumpets the work as providing students an ‘in-depth coverage of the region and its issues. Its stated goals include helping kids understand the ‘relationship between the social and physical environment, the region’s challenges [and] its socio-economic development.’ Nice goals. But there’s one problem: Israel is missing.”
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
In other words, Israel got eliminated from this atlas that was designed to cater to Middle Eastern countries that take umbrage with the fact that Israel…exists. Making maps always has political overtones and the company is now realizing that you can’t please everyone with different versions for distinct audiences. Now, HarperCollins has pulled the book and will pulp all remaining versions of the atlas.
Tags: Israel, social media, political, mapping, cartography.
“Confluences occur wherever two streams come together. If the gradient is low (i.e., nearly level) and the properties of the two streams are very different, the confluences may be characterized by a dramatic visible distinction as the mixing occurs only slowly.”
Tags: physical, fluvial, geomorphology, erosion, landscape.
Source: bsu-earthview.blogspot.com
We are living in the Anthropocene. But no one can agree when it started or how human activity will be preserved
Tags: ESRI, anthropocene, environment depend, sustainability.
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
“There’s no denying that the Amish are fascinating to the rest of us (“the English,” in Amish terms). We buy their furniture and jam, and may occasionally spot their buggies when driving on country roads through America’s heartland. Many may not realize, however, that though the Amish make up only a tiny percentage of Americans (less than 0.1 percent), the Amish population has grown enormously since the early 1960s, with much of the increase occurring in the last two decades.”
Tags: population, USA, folk cultures, culture, religion.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
A Washington, D.C., resident describes the changes and privilege that have moved into her longtime neighborhood.
Tags: neighborhood, gentrification, urban, place, culture, economic, Washington DC.
Source: www.theroot.com
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Brazil…because it’s bigger than you might think.
Tags: Brazil, South America, map, images, perspective.
Elwood was a senior geographer working on the ground-floor of the very global positioning systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS) he will throw up for discussion in his TEDx talk.
His question: Are we surrendering our innate mental map making abilities to technology and relying on and trusting it too much? And for TEDx audiences only, he’ll toss out ideas on ways to prevent that from happening.
Tags: mapping, GPS, cartography, TED, 201.
Source: www.timescolonist.com
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