Day: August 14, 2014

ARTICLE via NPR: ‘Columbusing’: The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New

‘Columbusing’: The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New by BRENDA SALINAS July 06, 201412:39 PM ET In this promotional photo shot for SC Johnson, TV star Jennie Garth sprays […]

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ARTICLE via NGS: The Pyres of Varanasi: Breaking the Cycle of Death and Rebirth

The Pyres of Varanasi: Breaking the Cycle of Death and Rebirth One river, 18,000 feet, 1,500 miles. In the fall of 2013, photographer and videographer Pete McBride, along with professional […]

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VIDEO via FreeBase: Charting Culture by Mapping Migration

Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes By Lisa Raffensperger | July 31, 2014 2:00 pm   It’s enough to put an old-fashioned family tree to shame. A visualization […]

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GAME: TravelPod Travel IQ

To this day, it remains one of my all-time favorite video games. Not iPad friendly yet as your finger is “too fat” to hone in on one location, best played […]

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VIDEO via TEDed: Why do competitors open their stores next to one another? – Jac de Haan

A perfect video clip to have students watch after lecturing Hotelling’s principle of locational interdependence. Click the picture to view the video.

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