Tag: names

RESOURCE: Almaz’s Story-Human Trafficking, Slave Labor

Human Imprint: This is a short, illustrated story based upon real events.  Topics: Modern slave labor, human trafficking, migrant workers Source: BBC News  

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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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NEWS via NPR: Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/24/323665644/the-map-of-native-american-tribes-youve-never-seen-before The Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before by HANSI LO WANG June 24, 2014 4:03 PM ET  Listen to the Story All Things Considered 3 min 36 sec […]

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Observations from the 2014 AP Human Geography Reading

Once again the AP Human Geography reading was a success. I still firmly believe that this group pf 500+ teachers and professors have GOT to be the most extraordinary and interesting […]

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NEWS via NPR: An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not. True Story

by ROBERT KRULWICH March 18, 2014 4:43 PM This is the story of a totally made-up place that suddenly became real — and then, strangely, undid itself and became a fantasy again. […]

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INFOGRAPHIC via Drew Skau: Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World

Click on the info graph above to interact with place names. Totally inappropriate, totally hilarious. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. […]

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