Author: Frank

• April 12, 2008general, General, GeographyAwareness

  Library of Congress Experience Goes Live

  The Library of Congress has just released a new feature called the Library of Congress Experience. The idea is to place digital collections of some of the Library’s original works […]

• April 11, 2008Education, general, Physical Geography, space (not spatial)

  New NASA Science Website

  NASA has just unveiled a new skin for it’s Science website. The site is serves as the public face for all the nifty scientific stuff done down at NASA central. […]

• April 9, 2008general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  Carbon Footprint Map of the US

  The Vulcan project is an interesting project out of Purdue University. They seek to “quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space and time scales much finer […]

• April 7, 2008Gadgets, general

  Cheap GPS

  From the hilarious science/math webcomic XKCD

• April 5, 2008general, General, Human Geography, WebMapping

  Nonprime Mortgage Maps

  As geographers, I know everyone out there is thinking, “I get the the home buying industry in the US is imploding like a black hole, but I still am having […]

• April 3, 2008Gadgets, general

  More on Surface Computing

  We reported a few months back about Microsoft’s Surface Computer. Popular Mechanics features a good video news item/discussion about surface computing in general, and specifically about Microsoft’s Surface product. The […]

• March 20, 2008general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  Extrasolar discovery of organic molecule

  It’s a baby step, but an important one. NASA reported yesterday that they found the first evidence of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet outside of the […]

• March 12, 2008Data, general, Hardware

  We Got Too Much Stuff!

  The IDC has just released a report (PDF) that says the amount of digital data we’ve collected exceeds the amount of space we have to hold it all. Right now, […]

• March 11, 2008general, Human Geography

  Go Green or Go To Hell. Do Not Pass Go, Do not Collect $200

  The Vatican has released a new set of mortal sins, one of which includes polluting the environment. Mortal sins, for those not aware of Catholic dogma, are sins which get […]

• March 7, 2008general, Human Geography

  Does Daylight Savings Time Help?

  Not according to a study conducted at the University of California-Santa Barbara and reported recently in the Wall Street Journal. The prevailing wisdom of Daylight Savings Time is that having […]