The best thing about the space program is all the satellite imagery we receive to better understand our home planet.
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Global news with a spatial perspective: Interesting, current supplemental materials for geography students and teachers. http://geographyeducation.org
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Hayley Allen's comment,
September 2, 2012 7:30 PM
This video was amazing because it showed the earth in a way that many people have rarely seen it. I have never seen the earth in this way and I think it is wonderful that our technology today allows us to see the world from this perspective. I hope we get to watch more videos similar to this one, during class this year.
Jennifer Keyorian's comment,
September 2, 2012 9:26 PM
This video is really entertaining . You can see a lot of the lights from the cities and the mountains . The cameras they put on the satellites are amazing . Its cool to see what the world looks like from outer space with the amazing technology humans have created .
Haley Wayland's comment,
September 3, 2012 12:32 AM
This video is so interesting. It really shows how advanced technology has become to be able to take a video of Earth from space. It is amazing how far we have come and how much we are capable of doing in our lifetime and beyond. It would be interesting to see how advanced technology will become over the next decades.
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"Ogooglebar. That's Swedish, and means "something you can't find with the use of a search engine." At least, that's what the Language Council of Sweden wanted Ogooglebar to mean--until Google stepped in, fearing that the word had negative connotations for the firm."
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I am used to the French trying to slow the flow of English words into French, but shocked that Google would join in the fray to slow linguistic change. Words evolve based on cultural shifts and technological changes and the computer industry has especially created new words to describe emerging, new social interactions. I'm certain that the company Google is thrilled that "to google" is the verb of choice to describe the action of searching for online for content. I would have guessed that Google was savvy enough to understand that this "ungoogleable" term is not an indictment on the company, but a new way to define that elusive, mysterious, indefinable quality for a generation that sometimes acts as if everything can be found of Google. Tags: language, culture, technology, google, diffusion. Delete the scoop?
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One out of four Swedes are immigrants or have a parent with an immigrant background.
Demographic shifts leading to political and cultural tensions. Europe, which historically has been a source of migrants, is relatively new to be a destination for migrants and that has heightened some of the conflicts. 
Sean Rooney's comment,
October 3, 2012 8:53 AM
What is driving these migrants to Europe? Times have changed and is the economy a reason for migrants to Europe? I believe that migrants leave their home countries in order to seek economic, political, and religious freedom. It is interesting to compare European migration to United States migration. I agree that this leads to a conflict due to vast majority of demographic shifts.
Derek Ethier's comment,
October 10, 2012 10:06 PM
Because Sweden has a strong economy, it has a strong attraction for migrants around the world seeking better lives. Sweden is also a very liberal country which may attract refugees or people of that sort. Unfortunately, they have not integrated as well as the Swedes could have hoped. This is amazing to me because I never would have guessed Sweden had a higher immigrant population per capita than the U.S.
chris tobin's curator insight,
March 22, 1:48 PM
This is an interesting video where second generation immigrants help one another by sharing their problems and aspirations with each other. Immigrants started out as visiting immigrants working in factories. Later in time, they stayed and started families. These successive second and third generations now are culturally challenged. They have started their own support groups to help one another with the challenges and tensions they face within Sweden that is now their home. American, UK, London, Czechoslavakia, Slovakia and other countries have been experiencing these problems for a long time. Decreased jobs, increased government aid, mixed cultures, affordable housing and housing shortages, changing community, cultural, religious and economic populations are some of the major problems people face and creates much tension. They maintain their own cultural identity while melting into a mixed society with rising tensions within the population amidst job competition in a changing economy. Cultures tend to segregate themselves to maintain autonomy within this environment and to develop a support system within their group to cope. They see themselves as people who are from generations who moved to attain a better way of life, away from political, religious and economic turmoil. As successive generations follow, they continue to form their own identities and try to 'gel' or fit into their perspective communities as a whole.
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