Geography
123 World Geography iPad App
A fun way for kids to learn children on the iPad is the 123 World Geography app. The application teaches geography through animation, the use of Google Maps, and voice overs in English, Spanish, French, and German that announce the names of the countries. Kids can also color various maps and save the images to [...]
Birth of Iceberg Captured
Envisat recently captured satellite data of the creation of an iceberg from the Petermann glacier in North-West Greenland. Captured between August 3 and August 7th, Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) data shows the Petermann glacier ‘calving’ and the movement of the new iceberg towards Nares Strait. The ice tongue of the Petermann glacier was [...]
Mapstats for Kids
Mapstats is filled with games to teach kids about concepts relating to geography and statistics. Activities include a game about farming, logistics, mapping, and the graphic display of statistics. The hosts of the games are two characters a globe called “Globie”, and a chart called “Stixie.” The site is from FedStats, the clearinghouse for official [...]
Your Brain on Maps
As part of a larger article on the real and hypothesized effects of relying on computerized navigation systems on the mind, Alex Hutchinson looked at research on spatial cognition. The ability to navigate successfully can be achieved by either of two different strategies in the brain which Hutchinson explains in Global Impositioning Systems: Iaria and McGill [...]
Endangered Languages Spoken in New York City
New York City is a hotbed of transplants and their endangered languages. It is estimated by some experts that as many as 800 languages are spoken in the Big Apple. Daniel Kaufman, an adjunct professor of linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has started the Endangered Language Alliance, a project [...]