Netflix Rental Maps by ZIP Code
Saturday March 27, 2010
This is fantastic! The New York Times has compiled ZIP Code-based choropleth maps of the top DVD rentals for 2009. They have mapped the top rentals for twelve ... Read More
2010 Geography Awareness Week Theme Announced
Friday March 26, 2010
The National Geographic Society has announced the theme for Geography Awareness Week, to be held November 14-20, 2010. This year's theme is freshwater. A mere 2.78% of the ... Read More
Taiwan Barters for Recognition
Thursday March 25, 2010
The GeoCurrents blog has a great article about the political wrangling and maneuvering that Taiwan does in order to gain recognition from minor countries on the world stage. For ... Read More
Another Advantage to Global Warming
Wednesday March 24, 2010
Thanks to the Passport blog for mentioning a new advantage to global warming! They report on a boundary dispute over an island in the Bay of Bengal. India ... Read More
Census Participation Map
Wednesday March 24, 2010
The Census Bureau and Google have made available a frequently-updated map of Census 2010 participation rates across the United States. If you haven't filled out the form, I encourage ... Read More
Unofficial Census
Monday March 22, 2010
The Unofficial Census, a project of a group called Census Digitus, provides an online mock-Census 2010 form with the same questions as on the questionnaires. Their goal? "To shame ... Read More
Geography of The Future
Thursday March 18, 2010
Four recent articles forecast what the world will look like in the future. The first, from Time discusses the need to modify the borders of the world's countries that were ... Read More
10 Key Findings About U.S. Population
Tuesday March 16, 2010
The Population Reference Bureau has published a new bulletin titled U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000. As part of the report, they present ten key findings about the ... Read More
Third World? Developing Countries? LDCs? Global South?
Tuesday March 16, 2010
What do we call a country that isn't part of Europe, East Asia, or American north of the Rio Grande? Or, more importantly, why do we need to categorize ... Read More
Easter Island
Sunday March 14, 2010
There are some who are claiming that Easter Island suffered from overpopulation, deforestation and exploitation of natural resources. Thus, they say, Easter Island can be seen as a symbol of ... Read More
March Equinox Saturday
Saturday March 13, 2010
On Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 1:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the March Equinox (also known as the Spring Equinox or Vernal Equinox) officially occurs. On March 20, all ... Read More
Daylight Saving Time Begins This Sunday
Tuesday March 9, 2010
Get ready for it! It's the biannual inconvenience known as Daylight Saving Time! This Sunday, March 14 at 2 a.m. we "spring forward" and lose an hour. Daylight Saving ... Read More
Concepcion, Chile Moved 10 Feet
Tuesday March 9, 2010
Researchers have discovered that the city of Concepcion, Chile moved ten feet to the west following last month's magnitude 8.8. earthquake. Chile's capital city Santiago also moved about 11 inches ... Read More
World Cities Geography Quiz
Sunday March 7, 2010
How well do you know your world cities? Test your knowledge of the cities of the world with this latest fifteen-question multiple-choice geography quiz. I'm sorry to have ... Read More
What Are Continents?
Saturday March 6, 2010
The answer to the question, "What are continents?" is a challenging one because there is no clear-cut definition. Two great recent posts (one - Nonsense About Continents and two ... Read More
More Liquor Stores = More Violence?
Friday March 5, 2010
A geographic study of Cincinnati shows that the more liquor stores there are in a given area, the more violence there will be in that area. According to an ... Read More
The Census Is Coming!
Wednesday March 3, 2010
Last Monday, the United States Census Bureau began hand-delivering 12 million Census 2010 questionnaires to homes in rural areas without addresses and to homes in Hurricane Katrina-impacted Gulf Coast areas. ... Read More
Geography News Roundup
Wednesday March 3, 2010
There's a bunch of odds and ends of geography-related news this week...
The Chile earthquake has slowed the planet by 1.26 microseconds.
Global warming is likely to cause more earthquakes, volcanoes, and ... Read More