Tags: borders, political, conflict, infographic, map.
Source: static3.businessinsider.com
Which statement is true?
A. 60% of all households without toilets in the world are in India.
B. India’s Muslims are less affected by the sanitation problem than Hindus.
C. India’s lack of toilets is worse than China’s.
D. Lack of toilets in India puts women at especially high risk.
Source: www.theglobalist.com
This is the ultimate trick question because unfortunately, ALL of these statements are true. India is a country of tremendous economic growth, but also filled with squalor; there are more cellphones than toilets in India. The lack of adequate sanitation and toilets is serious enough that that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made building toilets a national priority. Comics are using their platform to bring this issue of uneven development to light.
Tags: development, poverty, India.
“Thanksgiving has some fascinating spatial, historical and cultural components to it…here are some of my favorite teaching resources to use as Thanksgiving approaches.”
Tags: Thanksgiving, food, seasonal.
Source: geographyeducation.org
“Did you know that Swedish has more in common with Hindi than it does with Finnish? Explaining everything within the limits of the world is probably too ambitious a goal for a list like this. But here are 23 maps and charts that can hopefully illuminate small aspects of how we manage to communicate with one another.”
Tags: language, culture, English, infographic.
Source: www.vox.com
Corn, watermelon, and peaches were unrecognizable 8,000 years ago.
Source: www.vox.com
I think the term ‘artificial’ in the image might be misleading and it depends on your definition of the word. Humans have been selectively breed plants and animals for as long as we’ve been able to domestic them; that is a ‘natural’ part of our cultural ecology and has lead to great varieties of crops that are much more suitable for human consumption than what was naturally available. Long before climate change, humans have been actively shaping their environment and the ecological inputs in the systems with the technology that their disposal. This is a good resource to teach about the 1st agricultural revolution.
Tags: food, agriculture, consumption, unit 5 agriculture.
“Create a Map of all the places you’ve been.”
Source: m.maploco.com
This is an incredibly limited mapping platform, but if all you want to do is put states of the United States into two simple categories (such as ‘states I have visited’ and ‘states I have not visited’), then this works.
Tags: Tags: mapping, 201, edtech, cartography, mapping, USA.
The Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali, is a magnet for tourists, but it is increasingly difficult for locals to live a normal life around it.
Source: www.youtube.com
This New York Times short video is an intriguing glimpse into some of the cultural pressures behind having the designation of being an official world heritage site. The great mosque combined with the traditional mud-brick feel to the whole city draws in tourists and is a source of communal pride, but many homeowners want to modernize and feel locked into traditional architecture by outside organizations that want them to preserve an ‘authentic’ cultural legacy.
Tags: Islam, tourism, place, religion, culture, historical, community, Mali, Africa.
Just how much of the world’s cropland can we really call urban? That’s been a big mystery until now.
Now, a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters has an answer: Somewhere around 1.1 billion acres is being cultivated for food in or within about 12 miles (20 kilometers) of cities. Most of that land is on the periphery of cities, but 16.6 percent of these urban farms are in open spaces within the municipal core.
Source: www.npr.org
“Uganda plans to introduce a new anti-gay law that will withstand any legal challenge, a government minister has told the BBC. It will not explicitly refer to homosexuality, but will rely on the penal code which prescribes a life sentence for ‘unnatural acts’, he said. Activists say the plan is more draconian than anti-gay legislation annulled by the courts in August. The US and other donors cut funding to Uganda in protest against the law. Uganda is a deeply conservative society where homosexual acts are already illegal.”
Source: www.bbc.com
