This week, we learned …
… education is not the key to a good income. Read of the week!

Photograph by Paolo Woods, National Geographic
What’s grit got to do with it?
… the world’s daylight hours is a beautiful data visualization!

What are the politics of Daylight Saving Time?
… why girls in the Middle East do so much better than boys in school.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic
… a wild bison was spotted in Germany for the first time in two centuries. And then it was shot.

Photograph by Michael Gäbler, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
How are European bison different from their American cousins?
… what the world would look like mapped by time instead of space.

Map courtesy State Library of Victoria. public domain
What are some other strange ways to map?
… the world’s greenest sports team is a 128-year-old soccer club.
Is “professional athlete” a “career in renewable energy”? (No)
… how to get hot dates in Saudi Arabia.

Photograph by Suliman Al-Kurishan, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-2.0
Where are many of the Arab world’s dates grown?
… the challenge to geography posed by the Information Age.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ian Leones
How is “crisis mapping” responding to the challenges of the Information Age?
… we live in the golden age of animal tracking.

Map by Martin Gamache, National Geographic
Use our GeoStory to help track animal migrations.
… how a community copes with decades of mercury poisoning.

Illustration by Bretwood Higman, Ground Truth Trekking. CC BY 3.0
Omega 3s vs. mercury: Is seafood good for you?
… there was never really a “tulip fever.”

Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, courtesy the Walters Art Museum