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The crater is estimated at 262 feet wide and is in the northern Siberian area of Yamal, a name The Siberian Times says roughly translates as "the end of the world." 
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"More Americans came into contact with maps during World War II than in any previous moment in American history. From the elaborate and innovative inserts in the National Geographic to the schematic and tactical pictures in newspapers, maps were everywhere. On September 1, 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland, and by the end of the day a map of Europe could not be bought anywhere in the United States. In fact, Rand McNally reported selling more maps and atlases of the European theaters in the first two weeks of September than in all the years since the armistice of 1918. Two years later, the attack on Pearl Harbor again sparked a demand for maps."
Nicole Kearsch's curator insight,
October 14, 2014 2:06 PM
Whenever there is war, Americans want maps. They want to know about where conflict is, how far away from home it is, and why people are being sent to the places they are being sent. With the new map ideas in World War II from Harrison maps were made to better display distance and direction to people. He used different projections in areas. He also drew maps from different places, for example what does Japan look like when you are in Siberia. Transforming flat maps back to having some sort of global shape was exactly what we needed to get away from the old outdated unreliable style of maps.
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Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-silk-road-history-s-first-world-wide-web-shannon-harris-castelo With modern technology, a global exchange of ...
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In 19 of the 51 largest U.S. metros, including knowledge centers like New York, the city grew faster than the suburbs last year.
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Note: Join the author of this explainer here on July 10th, from 16:30 to 18:00 BST, when she will answer your questions on the rights and wrongs of France's "burqa...
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What should we focus on learning in an age where almost all information is at your fingertips? This question was originally answered on Quora by Robert Frost and Balaji Viswanathan.
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The division between Islam's Shiite minority and the Sunni majority is deepening across the Middle East. The split occurred soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, nearly 1,400 years ago.
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One nation under God, with many different religious traditions.
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All 49 other states don't have this law, yet it is an everyday part of life for a third of the people living in Arkansas.
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Hate to break it to you, but more hours doesn't mean more productivity.
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The Department of Commerce just lifted a ban on satellite images that showed features smaller than 20 inches. The nation's largest satellite imaging firm, Digital Globe, asked the government to lift the restrictions and can now sell images showing details as small as a foot. A few inches may seem slight, but this is actually a big deal.
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July 19, 2014 1:18 PM
Here we go. I was just at the ESRI conference in San Diego and Digital Globe is pushing this in a big way.
We seem to be concerned about "drones," but there are a host of technologies that should be equally concerning. The cats of which are mostly already out of the bags.
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There are major hurdles in drawing borders between Israel and a future Palestine. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed peace talks in Washington in July for the first time in three years. While the talks are initially expected to focus on procedural issues, they are already beginning to take on a last-ditch quality. Explore some of the contentious issues that negotiators have faced in drawing borders between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
Mr. David Burton's curator insight,
July 17, 2014 10:49 PM
Thoughts from my friend Seth...
Seth Dixon's insight: This five-part video report from the New York Times is from 2011, but still has some pertinent information, even if the situation has changed in some of the particulars. These videos brings important voices from a variety of perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; together they all show how a complex cultural and political geography leads to many of the difficulties in creating a long-lasting peace. The discipline of geography doesn't simple study the peace process--it is a part of it. The creation of borders and the cartographic process play a critical role in solving territorial issues. Geography can be both the problem and the solution. 
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December 17, 2014 1:37 PM
This video explains why defined borders are an important part of any potential solution for the conflict, and why it is such a complex issue. While agreeing on a border that benefits both seems like it should be an easy task, the realities on the ground and actions from both sides make it anything but easy.
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Even as the emphasis shifts to the keyboard, experts say that learning to write by hand improves motor skills, memory and creativity.
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Local account uploads photos of 'escaped' domestic workers.
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The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in
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It's an unexpected side effect of globalization: problems that once would have stayed local—say, a bank lending out too much money—now have consequences worldwide. But still, countries operate independently, as if alone on the planet. Policy advisor Simon Anholt has dreamed up an unusual scale to get governments thinking outwardly: The Good Country Index. In a riveting and funny talk, he answers the question, "Which country does the most good?" The answer may surprise you (especially if you live in the US or China).
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An OverlapMap is a map of one part of the world that overlaps a different part of the world. OverlapMaps show relative size.
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Zhang Yun Ying is a perfect specimen of grandmother, with bright white hair and profound wrinkles that get better when she smiles. But it’s her stride that really hits you -- how she balances on her heels like a kid. She can't help it: like mos...
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Nick Falbo is proposing a new protected intersection design that would make intersections safer and less stressful than they are today.
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Grameen America opened its first U.S. training center, which could help up to 80,000 women start their own businesses.
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There are more U.S. jobs now than there were before the recession. But the jobs are different — and they're in different places.
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