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• following the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 from Second Life

  
  ventriloquy — Authority: 130
  the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 will be held in Copenhagen from the 7th to the 18th of December. residents in Second Life can participate in the event through the hard work of Peter Lundquist (SL: Paolo Rousselot) who has worked closely with OneClimate.net , Beta Business Park and the ...
  11 hours ago

• Geo Quiz

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (1127098.mp3) Download MP3 Our daily geography quiz.
  20 hours ago

• Largest shellfish port in Europe

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  We’re looking for a rugged town in the extreme North East corner of Scotland. It’s 40 miles north of Aberdeen along the North Sea. This town claims it’s the largest shellfish port in Europe. Last year the town hauled in more than 12,000 tons of shellfish. More than half the town works in the fishing industry. ...
  20 hours ago

• ‘Augmented reality’ fuses the Web and the world around you (Wash Post)

  
  Kelso's Corner — Authority: 421
  Yelp and Wikitude apps are bringing annotated camera view to newer smartphone that have both GPS and compass built in.
  21 hours ago

• Get To Know P*N’s Staff: Jake Green

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 514
  Next up is another one of younger writers, he considers himself as just a writer for Platform Nation, but we consider him part of the family and as with all our writers a vital part of  Platform Nation.  Here’s what Jake Green without the “E” on the end had to say. This is not a picture of Jake or is it? ...
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• News Release: Thick Arctic Sea Ice Goes Missing

  
  University of Manitoba News Blog — Authority: 129
  Arctic sea ice has duped satellites into reporting thick multiyear sea ice where in fact none exists, a new study by University of Manitoba researcher David Barber has found. In 2008 and 2009 satellite data showed a growth in Arctic sea ice extension leaving some to reckon global warming was reversing. But after ...
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• Mesopotamian Myths and "Genre Calibration"

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 563
  Every Friday, "Science and the Sacred" features an essayfrom a guest voice in the science and religion dialogue. This weeksguest entry was written by Peter Enns. Enns is an evangelical Christianscholar and author of several books and commentaries, including thepopular Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and ...
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• Brazil’s unemployment falls to 7.5 percent

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Rio de Janeiro, Nov 27 (EFE) Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent in October, the lowest level of the year, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or IBGE, said.The September unemployment rate, which was also down, had been 7.7 percent, the IBGE said Thursday.The lowest unemployment rate in ...
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• Geo-engineering dunes into architecture

  
  nevertheless — Authority: 423
  Humans since ancient times, tilled the soil or carved a residence into the hillside or in other words engineered our landscape to suit our needs like carving through mountains to build transport networks or redirecting rivers and interrupting them to capture water behind walls of concrete. "Due to human ...
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• Silver Star Tours appoints Jeremy Moodley and Nerusha Singh

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 484
  The dedication and hard work of the Silver Star Tours (SST) team, spearheaded by Managing Director and founder Jenny Da Luz’ has been instrumental in the ongoing expansion of this brand in the Indian... Send your news worthy industry press releases for publication today to muzi at travelwires dot com.
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• Global Corruption Map

  
  ComingAnarchy.com — Authority: 580
  Transparency International has released their annual report on state corruption. Click on the above map for an interactive sort that reports the corruption index for each country moused over. The bottom end of this scale are the usual suspects of late, Somalia, Myanmar, Sudan and Iraq. The upper echelon include ...
  1 day ago

• Luzon-Visayas-Mindanao Malls Thread 14

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 177
  Post away folks! :colgate: Link to Thread 13 in the Archives. :okay:
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• Geo Quiz

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (1126098.mp3) Download MP3 Our daily geography quiz.
  1 day ago

• Home of the potato

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  On Thanksgiving Day, we’re asking you to ponder the origins of those potatoes in your holiday meal. No, we’re not interested in where Aunt Gladys or Cousin Mike picked up those potatoes to mash and bring over to your feast. We want to know where the potato was first grown for food. Here are a few hints. It’s a ...
  2 days ago

• Quake Spotting

  
  Intute blog — Authority: 130
  There has been a recent flurry of earthquake activity in the Oceania region. Whilst there is little unusual about this, it does allow us to highlight one of the tools available within the Intute World Guide: Natural Hazards pages. Real-time earthquake monitoring is provided by the United States Geological Survey ...
  2 days ago

• The Geography of a Recession – Unemployment Rates by County

  
  Simple Complexity — Authority: 509
  A very effective, time-lapse, heat-map overlay to a map of the United States shows the unemployment rates by county over time, January 2007 to September 2009. The time lapse aspect of the visualization on the source site is extremely effective. I wish it was possible to pause or rewind the ...
  2 days ago

• Learning about Xinjiang, Urumqui, and China’s Uygur People

  
  Moving at the Speed of Creativity — Authority: 567
  Matthew Teague’s December 2009 National Geographic article, “The Other Tibet,” should be considered must-reading for anyone interested in understanding modern China. In my November 5, 2009 podcast, “ Reflections on Social Media, School Change, 21st Century Learning Skills, and China ” I addressed some of ...
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• The Letter A

  
  Yellow Wallpaper — Authority: 468
  Heres a rundown on what we did this last month for countries starting with the letter A. I discovered that the main Crayola site has a coloring page with the flag of each country, so Ive been printing them off for the kids and they love coloring them. Afghanistan : We looked at a book from the library ...
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• Islands seen from space

  
  TYWKIWDBI — Authority: 599
  Top to bottom - the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, The Maldives, The Galapagos (I wonder if there are seahorses in the waters there...), and Atafu Atoll in Tokelau. From an assemblage of about a dozen at Wired , where there are further details re the islands.
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• Links for November 25th

  
  Infovore — Authority: 422
  Creating an audiogeography from walks through the silence at Alper.nl "We would then take the data generated from these walks and plot them into a computer representation of the area and generate visualisations from that. Building an audiogeography superimposed on the physical landscape with the sound levels as ...
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