The Newest Ocean
Monday April 30, 2007
In a recent post, geo-blogger Catholicgauze discusses the proliferation of the Southern Ocean, created just a few years ago. His list is interesting; for example, he reports that National ... Read More
Pittsburgh Best Place to Live
Sunday April 29, 2007
According to the latest edition of their Places Rated Almanac, Pittsburgh was rated as the top metropolitan area in which to live. Pittsburgh hasn't seen number one since 1995 ... Read More
Global Warming Advantages and Disadvantages
Thursday April 26, 2007
In response to numerous emails from students asking for help with determining "advantages and disadvantages of global warming" (and I have no clue why teachers would ask their students to ... Read More
Daylight Saving Time Increases Global Warming?
Thursday April 26, 2007
A letter to the editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette blames longer Daylight Saving Time for additional global warming. From the letter, "As you know, Daylight Saving Time started almost ... Read More
The Poor and Televisions
Wednesday April 25, 2007
FP Blog reports on the phenomenon of the world's poor investing in televisions before obtaining more "essential" items. The blog says, "Anyone who's lived in the United States long ... Read More
The Ghost Map
Tuesday April 24, 2007
Read my review of the recently published book, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic about the 1854 cholera epidemic in London and the beginnings of medical ... Read More
State Boundaries
Tuesday April 24, 2007
I am often asked about the history or development of state boundaries. Fortunately, there is a book that includes a goldmine of information about this topic. Unfortunately, it ... Read More
17 Year-Old Girl Visits Somalia, Not The World's Number One Travel Spot for Tourists, Trouble Happens
Sunday April 22, 2007
Last December Saifa Benaouda, 17, was visiting Dubai with her 25 year-old boyfriend, Munir Awad. The pair decided to also visit Somalia during Benaouda's winter break from school because ... Read More
Deadliest Hurricanes
Thursday April 19, 2007
Thanks to the suggestion from a blog commenter a few days ago, I created a list of the deadliest hurricanes in the world since 1900. It's in order based ... Read More
Antipode Map
Thursday April 19, 2007
The blog strange maps provides a fantastic map that displays places on earth that overlap due to anitpodes. The map clearly shows that the only region that has its ... Read More
Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast
Wednesday April 18, 2007
Researchers at Colorado State University have released their Atlantic Ocean hurricane and tropical storm forecast. They predict seventeen named tropical storms and nine of those are likely to become ... Read More
Male to Female Birth Ratio Reduced in U.S. and Japan
Tuesday April 17, 2007
While there are typically more males born in a given population than females (the ratio is usually 105 males for every 100 females), in the United States and Japan, the ... Read More
Pre-Katrina Images on Google Earth
Monday April 16, 2007
Google took quite a bit of heat recently for replacing its post-Katrina imagery on Google Earth with pre-Katrina imagery. Some say that the old photos don't remotely represent the ... Read More
Fastest Growing Metro Areas
Thursday April 12, 2007
The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported on the growth of metropolitan areas from 2000 through 2006. In that time period, the metro areas with the largest population increases were ... Read More
San Andreas Fault Photos
Thursday April 12, 2007
About.com Geology Guide Andrew Alden provides a phenomenal collection of four dozen photos of the San Andreas Fault, the famous fault line dividing the Pacific Plate from the North American ... Read More
If Planets Were Countries
Thursday April 12, 2007
The blog "strange maps" provides a most interesting map that compares the size of planets to the size of countries in the world. Therefore, Jupiter is Russia, Saturn is ... Read More
The Pacific Ring of Fire
Thursday April 5, 2007
The "Ring of Fire" is an arc stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of Asia, north across the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and south along the coast of ... Read More
The Great Wall of China
Tuesday April 3, 2007
The Great Wall of China is not a continuous wall but is a collection of short walls that often follow the crest of hills on the southern edge of the ... Read More
Koppen Climate Classification System
Monday April 2, 2007
The 20th century classification developed by German climatologist and amateur botanist Wladimir Koppen (1846-1940) continues to be the authoritative map of the world climates in use today.