Human Geography
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Son Finds Long Lost Family Via Google Earth
As GIS people, we know we do awesome stuff everyday. However, this may ratchet up the awesome to 11… or maybe 12. A Indian man who had been adopted by […]
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County to County Migration Data Released
The US Census Bureau has released county to county migration for the 2005-2009 period. The data shows how people are moving around the US between counties. I was rather surprised […]
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Environmental, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
Counting the True Cost of Coal
Obviously being a native West Virginian and living in the state, this is an issue near and dear to my heart. Ars Technica does a wonderful job of summing up […]
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Education, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Political Geography
US World Regional Geography class gets a chance to Skype with Burmese activist Suu Kyi
Professor John Boyer’s World Regions class at Virginia Tech got an amazing opportunity yesterday evening to interview Nobel laureate Aung Sang Suu Kyi, who is known the world over for […]
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The Geography of the Death Penalty
GeoCurrents has an interesting article on the geography of the death penalty in the US. Most people are aware that Texas has executed the most prisoners since 1976. GeoCurrents does […]
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Message in a Bottle
I’m thrilled with any post that allows me to make a The Police reference. Harold Hackett has a rather unusual hobby – he puts messages in a bottle and throws […]
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Data, Human Geography, Political Geography
Obama Seeks Data Experts
It seems pretty obvious to me this will be a trend in future elections – Obama seeks data experts for edge. The President leveraged social media pretty effectively in the […]
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Cool Stuff, General, Human Geography
Transportation… OF THE FUTURE!
If you’ve ever heard me chatting with Elvin of the ArcPad team, you’ll know that I can wax poetic about cars almost more easily than I can about GIS. I […]
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Adjusting the Nut Holding the Wheel
I really like that quote. The good folks at the Center for Environmental Research Technology (CERT) at the University of California have been engaged in researching new fuel efficiency technology. […]
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Revival of Airship Travel?
I remember reading a science fiction book in the mid-80’s that featured airship transportation on away planets. I had done a report about the Hindenburg a few years before that […]
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