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Cool Stuff, General, Human Geography
Americans Use A Lot of Gas
There’s so much going on with this article in Jalopnik that I love. Let me break it down for you in rough order. First…. cars and geography and we all […]
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CAFE Standards for Cars in the US
We all know greenhouse gases are all in the news the last decade or so. On top of that, fuel dependency gets a lot of airplay. Those two things drive […]
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General, Human Geography, Physical Geography
World’s Oldest Message In A Bottle
First, let it never be said I passed up an opportunity to make a The Police reference. Now that we have that over, The Guinness Book of World Records has […]
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The $6,000 Car for Africa
Cars + Geography = Frank in heaven. The car company Mobius Motors has created what is for gearheads like me might be darn near perfect car. The founders of Mobius […]
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Environmental, General, Physical Geography, Political Geography
The Cost of Carbon
Ars Technica is reporting that some researchers are having issues with the US’s pricing of carbon emissions. The price of carbon emissions is notoriously difficult to pin down, but these […]
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General, Human Geography, Travel
NPR Laments the Death of Paper Road Maps
Paper road maps are becoming obsolete, claims a NPR report. Well, not completely obsolete, but less and less used by daily drivers as GPS and SatNav have taken over. A […]
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Cool Stuff, General, WebMapping
Lego, Australia, and Build with Chrome
There’s a good 124 (ish) reasons I love this site – Building with Chrome and Lego. The most important are because it’s Lego and a Map. The basic premise is […]
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The Most Popular Street Names in the US
Cars and geography go hand in hand if you ask me. After all, transportation is one of our fundamental layers in GIS, right? So Jalopnik’s post detailing the most popular […]
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We Scooped Stephen Colbert!
Ok, so not by a lot..but it is interesting that Stephen Colbert covered the sea level rise issue we brought up in the latest podcast. Obviously Colbert took a much […]
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ChronoZoom and Big History
Ars Technica featured a pretty nifty new site, ChronoZoom, that attempts to show the history of everything in an easily explorable format. Several things caught my eye with this site. […]
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