The Wall Street Journal has an interesting, spatially relevant article on regulation and standardization of place names and the disappearing apostrophe in U.S. signage, “Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over the Apostrophes Future: Its Practically Against the Law to Use the Mark in a Places Name; Sorry, Pikes Peak.” Read the title again to
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 408
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 408 May 12, 2013 Main Topic: Public/private sectors in Geospatial Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
The Best Geographic Visualization I’ve Seen In Ages
It’s all well and good you can rattle off that most of the worlds population is in Southeast Asia. However, conceptualizing that is sometimes really challenging. It’s almost too abstract. That’s why this graphic is so amazing – more than half the world’s population lives inside this ‘circle’. That’s AMAZING! That tiny little circle encompasses
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 407
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 407 May 5, 2013 Main Topic: Geospatial and online education Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Build Your Own Cicada Sensor
NPR had a March story on “The Cicadas are Coming! Crowdsourcing An Underground Movement” about the public’s involvement in predicting cicada emergence, and the time is now. If you live on the East Coast, where the Magicicada Brood II is making its “squishy and crunchy” 17-year reappearance according to Radiolab’s Cicada Tracker, be a part of citizen science
What is Your Real Geospatial Age?
By now almost everyone with a computer and some spare time has taken the Harvard Mouse Click Age Test, which tries to determine a person’s age by how proficient they are at using a computer mouse. I personally scored about 15 years younger than my real age making me almost a teenager again, so thank you:
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 406
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 406 April 28, 2013 Main Topic: News Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Minute Earth looks at deserts
In case you missed this episode of Minute Earth when it first made the rounds last week.
Happy Shakespeare Day!
Today is 449th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday and also according to History.com, the anniversary of his death day. There are may Talk Like Shakespeare activities to choose from worldwide including Talk Like Shakespeare by the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Uncovered on PBS with maps of the different scenes and their deaths, and a plethora of Shakespeare lore.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 405
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 405 April 21, 2013 Main Topic: Digging for old(ish) sites. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
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