Education
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Geography Bee on NatGeo tonight
A quick, and last minute, reminder that the 2013 National Geographic Bee finals will be televised tonight. Head over to NatGeo at 7:00PM EDT to watch live or catch one […]
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Data, Education, GeographyAwareness
Upcoming Hack for Change: National Day of Civic Hacking
Intel Labs is sponsoring a national civic hacking event June 1 -2, 2013 in order to solve community challenges using publicly-released data. They are calling it the National Day of […]
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Cool Stuff, Education, Physical Geography, WebMapping
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 […]
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Education, GIS_Software, Social Networking, Software
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 […]
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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 […]
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Education, Human Geography, Travel
Epidemiology, GIS, and Portwenn
I only recently started to watch reruns of Doc Martin on Hulu. The show is about a gruff London surgeon who relocates to the picture book seaside village of Portwenn, […]
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Education, Environmental, Physical Geography
Great Garden Worm Count
The Guardian article, “The Great Garden Worm Count Finds Our Underground Allies are Thriving” discusses the role of citizen scientists in earth worm research. According to the article, “The discovery […]
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Flu trackers then and now
Influenza or “flu” is on the rise this month and so are the number of interactive maps being used to track it. Interactive maps have become an integrated part of […]
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Education, Human Geography, Physical Geography
AP Human Geography and Environmental Science
The AP (Advanced Placement) College Board has announced that it particularly needs AP Exam readers to score AP Human Geography and Environmental Science exams. Their website states that, “Each June, AP […]
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Cartography, Education, general, Remote Sensing, Software
The ZSL London Zoo
The ZSL London Zoo‘s annual census of every zoo animal as part of their zoo license renewal is an example of how to turn a seemingly routine geospatial task into international […]
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