All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The National Science Foundation has awarded $430,000 to Alberto Giordano, an associate professor at Texas State University-San Marcos, and Anne Knowles, a geographer at Middlebury College in Vermont to conduct a two-year study focusing on four aspects of the Holocaust: the evolution of the concentration camp system, the deportation of Jews from France and Italy, life inside the Budapest ghetto and...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
The geographer Professor Tony Chandler was known for his important work on the urban climate of greater London. His book The Climate of London remains without peer as a comprehensive account of a city’s climate, and contains original research and interpretations that helped to steer the thinking involved in the process-orientated work which followed.
An accidental blog (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Christian Scholars Review 31 (4) 2002 - special issue on Geography: Tom Bulten - Community and Propinquity of Church Members [ Abstract ] Iain Wallace - Globalization: Discourse of Destiny or denial? [ Abstract ] Mark D. Bjelland - Until Justice and Stewardship Embrace: Or, How a Geographer Thinks About Brownfield Sites [ Abstract ] Henk Aay - Geography’s Cultural Landscape School: A Reformational...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
++TAUGSHOW #16++ Divine Special (Paraflows 08 festival special) Wednesday, September 17, 2008 / 8:00 PM @ Metalab, Vienna We are not allowed to talk about the special guest hosts... yet! But who are our guests? /// TREVOR PAGLEN Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His work involves deliberately...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
paraflows , the festival for digital art and cultures in Vienna (co-organized by monochrom), is glad being able to present a lecture performance by Trevor Paglen. Trevor Paglen is geographer and artist and he takes us on a road trip through the world of hidden budgets, state secrets, covert military bases, and disappeared people: through a landscape that military and intelligence insiders call the...
flashpoint (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Image via CrunchBase outside.in, the local news site co-founded by geographer-historian Steven Johnson, launched a service called Radar which claims to feed you news from within 1,000 feet of your stated location. Similar to the other hyper-local services like EveryBlock and Topix, their service parses blogs and other social media for stories tied to a [...]
Precious Kingdoms (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
New York, Sept 9 (PTI) Up to 20 million people are at increased risk of flooding and major power shortages in China's Sichuan Basin, an expert on the subject has said The risk from flooding and power shortages could last next few decades or possibly centuries, says Dr Alex Densmore, a geographer from Durham University who had been studying the active faults in Sichuan for the past eight years. A major...
http://tambon.blogspot.com/atom.xml (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
One map which is depicted in many books on the history of Thailand is titled "Carte du Royaume de Siam et des Pays Circonvoisins" ( Map of the kingdom of Siam and surrounding countries ). This map was drawn by R. Placide Augustin Dechaussé, royal geographer of the French King Louis XIV. It was drawn in 1686 in dedication to the voyage of Alexandre de Chaumont to Siam as the first French ambassador....
Jam and Clotted Cream (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
After the truly awful weather we've been having over the last few weeks (sorry, I always go on about the weather but I have two excuses 1 - I'm English!, 2- I'm a geographer so its in my nature), instead of salad and BBQ food its been comforting, warm, winter food on the menu - lets hope for an indian summer hey! This recipe came from the latest edition of Delicious Magazine (I love Delicious, can't...
Paul Ramsey (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
It's a shame I'm not a geographer, because there are probably some interesting sociological nuggets hiding in the way manufacturing has dispersed across the USA over the past 40 years. This weakly reasoned article in Salon includes the point that auto manufacturers are locating their US plants in the South. Why so? Union avoidance probably has something to do with it. But the price efficiency of a...
Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Berlin, August 17 : A German geographer has said that wind screens could help to keep chilly breezes on top of glaciers in Europe, thus saving them from melting.
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Geographer Hans-Joachim Fuchs of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, said Alpine glaciers have shrunk by 50 percent since 1850. ...
SoccerBlog.com (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Brandi Chastain: “We have to remember. New Zealand is a small island in the middle of the ocean, so they don’t get a lot of games.” If only the Ferns moved to a bigger country, everything would be alright. If...
Rashid's Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
There were reports about the effects of global warming on algal bloom . As a geographer both interests me , besides i have a life-science background so i have natural interest in these. I have found an interesting and somewhat convincing post on Watts Up With That'. Here it is: It seems that global warming is [...]
Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
We'd like to offer congratulations to Gerhard Buttner, the winner of Planeta.com's eighth annual Colibri Ecotourism Award. South African geographer Buttner won the honor for his superb work training guides and artisans in Mexico's Yucatan and Oaxaca. Over the past...
