Jun

29th 2008

Geography Girl

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Here’s a flashback moment (at least for me) to grade school geography.

Visit the image on Flickr, read the fun posts and help out Skye by adding a note on where you live.

Jun

27th 2008

Ice-free North Pole?

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Researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado are predicting that the North Pole may be briefly ice free this summer.  Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist states, “It’s a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice, which was frozen last autumn, will completely melt away at the geographic North Pole.“  Serreze blames the condition on global warming noting, “We’ve known for at least 30 years, from our earliest climate models, that it’s the Arctic where we’d see the first signs of global warming.”

Read more: North Pole could be ice-free this summer, scientists say - CNN.com

Jun

26th 2008

Shape-Shifting Highrise

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Italian architect David Fisher has announced plans to build an 80-story highrise in Dubai with 80 apartments that will spin independently of one another in order to constantly change the shape and look of the building.

 

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Jun

21st 2008

Happy Geography

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Joy over on the Happy to be at Home has posted some useful links to sites that help kids and adults learn more about geography.

Jun

17th 2008

Test Your Geography for a Good Cause

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Your can test your knowledge of geography and help a good cause at the same time.   Freepoverty.org hosts a geography game that donates 10 cups of water for every correct answer. With progressively harder questions, the game shoots out the names of various locations around the world. Click on the point on the map where you think that location is. The closer you get to the location, the more cups of water you are awarded. Click too far away and no cups are awarded. Donations are provided to agencies such as UNICEF or WaterAid and are underwritten by advertising on the site.

Visit and Play: http://www.freepoverty.com/

Jun

17th 2008

Congestion Cities

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INRIX, a traffic-information provider released their list of the top 100 most congested cities in the United States.  Not surprisingly, some of the most populated metropolitan areas rank at the very top of the list.   According to the press release, “The INRIX Scorecard takes a micro look at traffic problems all across the country — zooming in on the total hours spent in traffic, worst day of the week for commuting and average speeds for the top 100 cities in the U.S., along with hundreds of other details including the identification of the nation’s worst bottlenecks Americans drive through every day.”  The top four ranked cities (Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Washington D.C.) account for 50% of the top 1,000 bottleneck locations in the country.

The top ten worst cities for congestion are:

  1. Los Angeles, CA
  2. New York, NY
  3. Chicago, IL
  4. Washington D.C.
  5. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
  6. San Francisco, CA
  7. Houston, TX
  8. Boston, MA
  9. Seattle, WA
  10. Atlanta, GA

Learn more: National Traffic Scorecard - INRIX

Jun

13th 2008

Top Ten Pictures from NASA

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Take a peek at the top ten photos from NASA’s Crew Earth Observations Team.  The photos were selected from the International Space Station Astronaut Photography Collection and feature images not only taking of spots from around the world but also ones of the earth’s atmosphere and the moon.

Visit: Crew Earth Observations ‘Top Ten’ Photos

Top Ten

  • Eruption of Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  • Layers of the Earth’s Atmosphere
  • Nighttime view of Los Angeles, California
  • Aurora Borealis and lights in Finland, Russia, Estonia and Latvia
  • A glimpse of the barren moon through the Earth’s limb
  • Mt. Everest and Makalu
  • Green aurora
  • Bernese Alps, Switzerland
  • Nukuoro Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia
  • Harrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia

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