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Long before sustainability became a buzzword, architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments with ecologically-sound building materials such as cardboard tu... 
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What's your carbon footprint? Use The Nature Conservancy's carbon footprint calculator to measure your impact on our climate.
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"The incredible fractal pattern rivers (now dried out) were made as they spread into the salt flats of the arid Baja California Desert in Mexico."
Victoria McNamara's curator insight,
December 12, 2013 1:22 PM
This picture shows the drainage patterns and how the water drifted in many directions and not just in a single line. Water does not stay in a perfect straight line it flows and drifts in many directions. This is what the image is showing, how this particular water flows in many directions and branches off from one stream to another. 
Jess Deady's curator insight,
April 17, 2014 10:46 AM
The Earth is an incredible place, we all know that. To see something like this form by itself is a wonder on its own. 
Sid McIntyre-DeLaMelena's curator insight,
May 29, 2014 12:15 PM
The photographs of the salt flats in the Baja California Desert reveal dried out rivers that may have once fertilized the area to be able to sustain life. Human-Environment Interaction speeds up desertification and makes once fertile lands useless.
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
August 20, 2013 11:04 AM
This video clip shows a political candidate who is trying to limit the cultural spread of Islam in Australia; unfortunately for her she makes some horrendous erroneous cultural statements (to be fair, the interview was edited to highlight only the factually incorrect statement that she made). Cultural ignorance is fince, but when combined with a highly opinionated platform it creates a dangerous ideological position. And if you want another classic gaffe on cultural geography that is painful to watch, see Miss Teen Carolina blunder along trying to answer a beauty pageant question.
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Here is a quick lesson on how to set up and take Cornell Style notes. This is a Basic version of these notes. Lessons on more advanced versions will be comin...
Clairelouise's insight:
This video presentation is elementary, especially the beginning, but I think my students will find the information and examples helpful. I like the notion of "above the surface" and "below the surface" questions.
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New nations seem to pop up with alarming regularity. At the start of the 20th century, there were only a few dozen independent sovereign states on the planet; today, there are nearly 200! Via Mr. David Burton
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"This is a compilation of videos that can be used to at the beginning of the school year to show the importance of geography, spatial thinking and geo-literacy."
Jaiden VerSteeg's comment,
August 29, 2013 11:41 PM
I watched video #1 and I thought it was very interesting. It was a great way to show what we are going to be learning about. I am really looking forward to learning about it.
Alexandria Goodyk's comment,
August 29, 2013 11:59 PM
I watched video #3 and it's crazy how one video can give us so much information. I am so excited to learn new things this year and get educated with all of this stuff.
Richard Miles's curator insight,
September 5, 2013 7:29 PM
Great little starters to get the students engaged with Geography!
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The Hindu Social media, western culture replacing traditional arts The Hindu The village and community heads used to organise 'burra kathas', street plays, puppet shows (Tholubommalata) and 'janapada nrutyams' (folk dances) to enlighten the people...
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When you put a librarian and a historian in the kitchen with a centuries' old cookbook, you get a lot more than recipes. You also get a sense of how much the way we eat has changed — from how we define dessert to the size of our eggs. Via Mr. David Burton
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This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (The David Rumsey Map Collection hosts a fully zoomable version here.) Via Seth Dixon
Joshua Lefkowitz's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 7:38 PM
Often times I find it hard to think of history as simply a recolection of time. Youspend your childhood looking at timelines and learning history linearly you often forget that this is not the case. I found this work to be very asthetically pleasing and helpful as well.
Joshua Lefkowitz's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 7:55 PM
Often times I find it hard to think of history as simply a recolection of time. Youspend your childhood looking at timelines and learning history linearly you often forget that this is not the case. I found this work to be very asthetically pleasing and helpful as well.
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The future of Iran will be determined by the first post-Revolution generation. Here's what they're like. Via Seth Dixon
Siri Anderson's curator insight,
August 25, 2013 9:52 AM
Who knew? Would be nice to have students develop some raps that appealed to democratic, peaceful, shared-world sensibilities. 
Isabelle Zahn's curator insight,
January 18, 2014 3:02 PM
In this article you see the concept of gender population and folk culture. This article talks about how Iran has had their baby boom population in there right now between the mid teens and the mid-20s. It also talks about how all of the young people are starting to control everything and things are becoming run by the young people. Most of the government is run by young people there all of the young people are just starting to pop up and down getting married as you get there I having more kids because it's a big huge population of young people. This has an impact on every music sucks local national and international communities because every community at some point will have a baby boom generation for us right now it's kind of an older generation for other countries the younger generations so really every time she goes through these baby-boom stages. Some short-term effects of this could be a lot of new births because all the people are starting to get a little bit older because their mid teens to mid 20s they will be getting married soon and will want have families. Some long-term effects could be another baby boom generation possibly coming because of this baby boom generation all the side to have kids that he couldn't another baby boom generation were everybody wants to have a kid so their country may decide to good use birth control or something that will reduce the chances of having another baby good population because their country can't support all of those people. |
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Is it taboo? Often misunderstood, voodoo was born in the West African nation of Benin. And here it is an official religion.
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More than a third of Copenhageners bike to school or work, but it hasn't always been that way -- and city officials say that's not nearly enough. Biking here was stress-free — quite a contrast to my route to work in Seattle, which one international bike expert recently called “death-defying.” Via Seth Dixon
Seth Dixon's curator insight,
August 21, 2013 11:34 AM
Forms of transportation are typically seen in terms of technological developments, but the cultural institutions can either support or hinder the diffusion. In Copenhagen, bikes are as common as vacuum cleaners because of a cultural movement supported by political initiatives to incentivize cycling and promote sustainable transit and active lifestyles. Read the first part of this series where an American tourist is pleasantly baffled by European cycling culture. 
Sarah Ziolkowski's curator insight,
January 1, 2014 6:25 PM
This article applies to the concepts of culture unit, specifically the diffusion section. It talks about Copenhagen's new cycling culture emerging after the government's efforts to neutralize CO2. 36% of the city's population bikes to work or school, a number they'd like to increase. However, they are still well ahead of The United State's highest percent in Portland, Oregon of 6%. Copenhagen's action could be a model for your community to change to biking.
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Use this lesson to become familiar with making the most of your Cornell Notes. This lesson builds on the skills and techniques in the lesson on Basic Cornell...
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Draw a stickman and watch him come to life in this new stickman adventure!
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Just for FUN :-)
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A document released to Communist Party cadres enumerated what it called subversive social currents, including Western-inspired notions of human rights, that must be fought.
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Throw out your globe. We've got some explaining to do. (RT @KimBurdi: Great for geography nerds! Via Mr. Jacobsen
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Harnessing manpower like never before, Chinese sustainable building company Broad Group has accomplished the seemingly impossible task of constructing a 30-story hotel in a mere 15 days (360 hours)!
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I’m a teen living in New York. All of my friends have social networks — Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, etc. Facebook used to be all I could talk about when I was younger. “Mom, I want a Facebook!” and other whining only a mother could put up with.
But now, at 13, I’ve been noticing something different. Facebook is losing teens lately, and I think I know why.
Part of the reason Facebook is losing my generation's attention is the fact that there are other networks now. When I was 10, I wasn’t old enough to have a Facebook. But a magical thing called Instagram had just come out ... and our parents had no idea there was an age limit. Rapidly, all my friends got Instagrams.
Now, when we are old enough to get Facebook, we don’t want it. By the time we could have Facebooks, we were already obsessed with Instagram. Facebook was just this thing all our parents seemed to have.
This leads me into my next point: Although I do have a Facebook, none of my other friends do. My friends just thought it was a waste of time. I decided to get a Facebook just to see what it was all about. I soon discovered that Facebook is useless without friends. My only friend is, like, my grandma.
Teens are followers. That’s just what we are. If all my friends are getting this cool new thing called Snapchat, I want it, too!We want what’s trending, and if Facebook isn’t “trending,” teens won’t care. All of our parents and parents' friends have Facebooks. It’s not just the fact that I occasionally get wall posts like, “Hello sweetie pie!” But my friends post photos that get me in trouble with those parents.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
Belinda Suvaal's curator insight,
August 15, 2013 8:00 AM
de dalende trend heeft ingezet.. #facebook
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Dolphins can recognize their old tank mates' whistles after being separated for more than 20 years—the longest social memory ever recorded for a non-human species. The remarkable memory feat is another indication that ...
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In China, mimicry is a form of mastery. China copies movies, cell phones, even architecture. In fact, it's home to several imitation European villages, including a fake English village called Thames Town. Via Brian Koch
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