This is an excellent spatial graph that helps to explain the distribution of the human population. Why do we live where we live? The longitude map is still fascinating, but has less explanatory power. What would be brilliant is a graph that charted population by latitude (as this does) AND charts the amount of land at each given latitude. To see the originals on the Radical Cartography website, see: http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?histpop Via Seth Dixon, Ph.D. Most Americans have moved to a new community at least once in their lives, although a notable number — nearly four-in-ten — have never left the place in which they were born. The Obama administration has relaxed travel restrictions to Cuba, reinstating Bill Clinton's policy of allowing people-to-people travel. Via Seth Dixon, Ph.D. 
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press..."
Way to go Minnesota!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Redeveloped neighborhoods boomed then busted. 
The Japanese population is expected to shrink by one third in the next half century, a government report says.
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One person was killed and nearly 20 injured in a stampede Tuesday by students trying to register at the University of Johannesburg, reflecting desperate demand for higher education. 
Winter is upon us and the thaw is still months off, yet many of us are already dreaming of warmer weather, lighter clothes and daylight hours that last beyond the workday. 
This downloadable booklet/presentation rather succinctly summarizes the discipline of geography while dispelling certain misconceptions (no, it's not just learning facts and memorizing capitals). The cartoon illustrations and text are engaging, informative and very accessible. This National Geography Education resource to promote geo-literacy is a good primer to start a semester. Via Seth Dixon, Ph.D. USGS - READ ARTICLE Magnitude 4.8 Date-TimeThursday, December 29, 2011 at 13:45:41 UTC Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 08:45:41 AM at e. 
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This particular graph shows Total Fertility (x axis) and Life Expectancy (y axis) which collectively can explain some of what can be called human development. This is an interactive graphic that shows both temporal and regional patterns in changes in development. Via Seth Dixon, Ph.D. 
Just after the close of World War II, the last Great Migration in the United States — the move from the city to the new suburbs — began to emerge, fueled by new roads, low congestion, a... Via axelletess 
The share of rural populations has hit a new low as cities, suburbs boom. 
Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year. 
Like a piece of taffy, the state is stretching along the Rio Grande Rift, leaving researchers curious to its cause -- and its effect. 
The ancient city of Angkor — the most famous monument of which is the breathtaking ruined temple of Angkor Wat — might have collapsed due to valiant but ultimately failed efforts to battle drought, scientists find. 
For years, the story told about the Amazon has centred on the destruction of the world's largest rainforest - but that is no longer the whole truth. Via dilaycock 
When the clock struck midnight Thursday, the tiny South Pacific island nation of Samoa skipped over Friday and moved 24 hours ahead — straight into Saturday, Dec. 31. |
