Yes, that’s right, 137 years of awesome issues of Popular Science magazine are now available online by searching the archive at the PopSci website. If you’re a science or gadget nerd, you’ll have lots of fun checking out the science frontiers of decades gone by, and even checking out the advertising and graphics styles for
Best US Government Blogs
Ran across this interesting post: the best government blogs and why they’re the best. With the exception of NASA, none of these have a direct geospatial tie. In fact, all but one of them are CIO’s of their respective organizations. It sorta makes sense it would start there, but I’d like to challenge anybody in local, state,
GPS Adventures at the Maryland Science Center
Dan at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore emailed to let us know that GPS Adventures, a traveling exhibit all about GPS and geocaching, will be opening tomorrow, February 20th and will be running until April 18th. GPS Adventures gives visitors an introduction to GPS technology and the basics of navigation in general, and offers
Geographic Wills
According to the BBC, Eric Gordon Douglas from Edinburgh left nearly £11,000 for 20 towns around the world that share his surname. The Herald Scotland states that no one knows anything about their benefactor other than his name and home city. On the Rampant Scotland site you can find out “Is Your Home Town Named
Can US Senators Draw Their Own State?
National Geographic has a really cool geography awareness week challenge for US Senators – can you draw your home state and give three points of interest within it? Thus far, only a few Senators have replied with their drawings. It should be no surprise that Al Franken is one of them, since he can draw all 50
Ice Age Took 6 Months to Form?
Who would have thought a Dennis Quaid movie could be right? (well, except for Enemy Mine, which I maintain is simply to awesome to not come true some day) Geology researchers are now saying that the last ice age could have happened in an extremely short period of time, not the previously thought decade or
GAW Contest Day 2
Day two of Geography Awareness Week has arrived with another chance to win a copy of Field Assets for iPhone or a piece of VerySpatial SWAG from our shelf. Please keep in mind that you must have access to the US iTunes store to redeem the codes for Field Assets. Today the question leans toward
GAW Contest
The folks over at LBS Wireless sent us a few licenses for their Field Assets iPhone app to give away. We are taking advantage of the timeliness to roll it into a Geography Awareness Week contest. We will be giving away 1 copy a day Monday through Thursday (Nov 16-19) next week…I stole Friday’s copy
The Geospatial Semester – a great program for high school students in Virginia through JMU
James Madison University has a great new partnership with high school in Virginia for a program called The Geospatial Semester . From the Geospatial Semester webpage: “The Geospatial Semester is a unique partnership between high schools in Virginia and the Integrated Science and Technology department at James Madison University (JMU). High school seniors participating in
First ever USA Science and Engineering Festival – Fall 2010!
This is so cool – Next fall, from October 10-24th, the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival, the US’s first national science festival, will be held in the Washington, DC area. The culmination of the Festival will be a 2-day (October 23rd and 24th) Expo on the National Mall. From the Festival website – “The
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