NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Cincinnati, Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio The labor force has been shrinking in all of Ohio’s major cities other than its state capital, Columbus. Cleveland has lost 52,000 […]
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NEWS via NGS: Genghis Khan’s Secret Weapon Was Rain
Tree-ring studies suggest that a long wet spell gave him the resources to invade and conquer. Some 800 years ago, ancestors of modern Mongolians conquered the world on horseback. A […]
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NEWS via TurkishPress: World’s population at risk from organism-borne diseases
World’s population at risk from organism-borne diseases Tuesday, March 11, 2014 GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) has released information stating that more than half of the world`s population […]
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RESOURCE: Life and Debt-Video and Guided Worksheet
Life and Debt (2001) The video Life and Debt is a fantastic documentary that discusses the economic struggles that post-colonial countries such as Jamaica face. The majority of the video […]
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News via India.com: As the world population increases, eating insects could soon become mainstream
As the world population increases, eating insects could soon become mainstream Agencies March 9, 2014 at 7:31 pm How would you react if your neighborhood restaurant serves you a menu that […]
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News via ECNS.cn: China to improve environment legislation amid lingering smog
Chinese top legislator Zhang Dejiang on Sunday pledged to enhance environmental legislation and oversight of pollutant emissions, as Beijing continued to be shrouded in a spell of lingering smog. The […]
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via Inquirer: Urban farming Pushed to help Attain Food Self-Sufficiency
Urban farming pushed to help attain food self-sufficiency By Ronnel W. Domingo Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:39 am | Saturday, March 8th, 2014 Read more: http://business.inquirer.net/165648/urban-farming-pushed-to-help-attain-food-self-sufficiency#ixzz2vUk3IoTi Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook The […]
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VIDEO RESOURCE via NPR: Visualizing How a Population Grows so Big so Fast
NPR: Visualizing How a Population Grows so Big so Fast This is a great video clip that shows how populations slow and quicken as certain “checks” are added or subtracted. […]
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RESOURCE: AP HuGe Final Presentation Review Activity
This is an activity that my students complete before the AP exam for review purposes. It does require for them to make a powerpoint presentation, but I started using Google […]
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NEWS via Saratogian: China worries it’s losing the Pop-Culture Arms Race
China worries it’s losing the pop-culture arms race By Gu Jinglu and William Wan, The Washington Post POSTED: 03/07/14, 6:14 PM EST | BEIJING — There is no shortage of […]
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INTERACTIVE via Ramiro Gómez: Country Shape Quiz
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INFOGRAPHIC via Natalia Viladimirova: The Global Face of Poverty
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NEWS via NewYorkTimes: Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help
Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help By DAMIEN CAVEMARCH 4, 2014 At Atelier, foreigners and Cubans find food and service that had disappeared from Havana for decades. Credit […]
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NEWS via Telegraph: The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis
The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis As Russia and Ukraine come ever closer to blows over Crimea, we explain, using maps, the issues at stake 10:35AM GMT 04 Mar […]
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INFOGRAPHIC via John Nelson: North America Tornado Tracks
NEWS via NBCNews: First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia
First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia BY ALAN BOYLE WILLIAM MANLEY / IAAR / UNIV. OF COLO. This map shows the outlines of modern Siberia (left) […]
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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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INFOGRAPHIC via Visual.ly: The United States of Energy
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NEWS via HeritageDaily: 17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration
17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration HERITAGE March 3, 2014 – No comments The fate of migrants moving to cities in 17th- and 18th-century England demonstrates how a single pathogen could […]
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INFOGRAPHIC via Visual.ly: GLobal Life Expectancies from Birth
MAP via Sentencing Project: How Felon Voting Policies Restrict the Black vote
Cartogram of disenfranchisement rates, 2010. (Sentencing Project) In Florida, more than one in five black adults can’t vote. Not because they lack citizenship or haven’t registered, but because they have, […]
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INFOGRAPH via PRB: 2013 World Population Data Sheet
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NEWS via HinduBusinessLine: ‘Agriculture dependent population in India grew by 50% during 1980-2011’’
‘Agriculture dependent population in India grew by 50% during 1980-2011’’ According to a report of the Worldwatch Institute, the economically active agricultural populations of China and India grew by 33 […]
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NEWS via Gizmodo: Mapping the Geographical Digital Divide
Mapping the geographical digital divide This Gizmodo map of average Internet speeds by congressional district shows how disparate access to the web is.
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