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Mental maps: Somali perceptions of the Twin Cities
Here’s an interesting project on “Mental Maps: Gaining Insight Into the Diverse Somali Perceptions of Residential Desirability in the Twin Cities” by Fartun Dirie, a…
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Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over, says Oxfam
An Oxfam report, The cost of inequality: how wealth and income extremes hurt us all, argues that while “a certain level of inequality may benefit…
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St. Peter bridge: Second bridge over the Minnesota River
According to a 26 May 2013 Mankato Free Press article by Nicollet County Historical Society Collections Manager Bob Sandeen, the Saint Peter bridge on Broadway…
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Wasted Opportunity: Inefficiency and Waste in our Food Systems
Jonathan Foley, Director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, has a recent essay on meeting food needs in a world of growing…
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An Islamic Google Earth?
The U.K. Guardian newspaper recently reported that Iran’s minister for communication and technology announced that their country will release an Islamic version of Google Earth…
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Ice Out on Northern Minnesota Lakes
The ice went out in early May on many northern Minnesota lakes. For some lakes it was the latest ice-out date on record. NASA’s Earth…
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Timelapse: Land transformation videos
These land change time-lapse series from Time Magazine and GoogleEarth are making the internet rounds. It’s fun to see land use and land cover…
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Hate speech map based on Twitter feeds
Geography students at Humboldt State University in California created this map of hate speech in the U.S. based on Twitter feeds: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/twitter-hate-speech_n_3265916.html.
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Fair Trade: On Our Interconnected World
Our world today is more interconnected than ever. One major expression of our interconnectedness is the global economy: the goods and services we purchase are…
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A record wet start to Minnesota’s spring
from WeatherTalk, by Mark Seeley, Univ. of Minnesota, Dept of Soil, Water, and Climate: “The south-central and southeastern climate divisions of Minnesota are off to…
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