This week, we learned …
… education is not the key to a good income. Read of the week!
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.
… a wild bison was spotted in Germany for the first time in two centuries. And then it was shot.
How are European bison different from their American cousins?
… what the world would look like mapped by time instead of space.
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.
Where are many of the Arab world’s dates grown?
… the challenge to geography posed by the Information Age.
How is “crisis mapping” responding to the challenges of the Information Age?
… we live in the golden age of animal tracking.
Use our GeoStory to help track animal migrations.
… how a community copes with decades of mercury poisoning.
Omega 3s vs. mercury: Is seafood good for you?