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
Geography Awareness Week Blog-a-thon at My Wonderful World
Each year, we try to do daily Geography Awareness Week posts to highlight topics related to Geography and each year’s theme, and other blogs also offer great content to celebrate. This year, My Wonderful World is sponsoring a Geography Awareness Week blog-a-thon, to promote blogging about Geography during the week. Just notify Sarah Jane at
New Jersey is to Clerks as Idaho is to….
I was looking up some old movies online and found tons of fun information on movies and their associated landmarks or states. Rotten Tomatoes has a fun “50 Movies for 50 States” U.S. map. It has some obvious ones like Kansas and the Wizard of Oz or Oklahoma and Oklahoma! but also many that you
Great California ShakeOut – World’s Largest Earthquake Drill
With the recent devastating earthquakes in the Pacific region, the Great California ShakeOut is a very timely event. On October 15th, at 10:15am local time, millions of Californians are going to be participating in the world’s largest earthquake drill. Although we are powerless to stop natural disasters like earthquakes from happening, knowing what to do
Google’s Project 10 to the 100 – Vote for your favorite idea!
You may remember Google’s Project 10 to the 100, which invited everyone around the world to submit ideas that “to change the world by helping as many people as possible.” Over 150,000 ideas were submitted by the deadline in October 2008, and between September 24th and October 8th, 2009 (that’s right, voting is open right
License plate spotting – a fun way to learn about geography
Once a week, I like to check out my hometown newspaper’s website, and enjoy the fun small town stories (some of which are about people I went to high school with and haven’t seen in 20 years). This week, a fun little article caught my eye about 2 Penn Yan kids who decided to keep
Museum Day 2009- Free admission to participating US museums and parks!
Smithsonian Magazine, is sponsoring a great event here in the US on September 26th, Museum Day 2009. Over 1250 participating museums around the country will be offering free admission, which is a cool deal. If you follow the link above to the Museum Day website, you’ll find a Google Maps app to help you locate
Climate friendly news stack
When I sat down with the BBC News site today I was struck by the number of articles that are related to attempts to create green energy or cut greenhouse gas emissions. I will start off with the one that I found most striking, Hatoyama’s pledge to cut Japan’s emissions by 25% (1990 to 2020).
Associations/Groups – GISCI
Since I finished my GISP application and FINALLY sent it in I thought it was probably time to highlight the GIS Certification Institute. From their web site the GISCI “provides the geographic information systems (GIS) community with a complete certification program. GISCI offers participants from the first early years on the job until retirement a
NYC’s High Line Park opens – cool new use for abandoned urban rail line
I was browsing through some blog entries this evening, and saw a post from Inhabitat about the opening of the High Line Park in New York City, which is an urban park created from an abandoned elevated train line. I had not heard of this before today, but after looking at the photo gallery, this
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