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America’s Most Endangered Historical Sites

UNITED STATES America’s Most Endangered Historical Sites The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its annual list of America’s “Most Endangered Historic Places”. All of the featured sites were nominated for their historical or architectural significance, their deteriorating conditions, and the viability of a solution to restore them. Discussion Ideas The National Trust for Historic Preservation gives brief accounts of all 11 the endangered historic … Continue reading America’s Most Endangered Historical Sites

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Geography of Happiness

GEOGRAPHY The Saddest Tweeters Live in Texas Researchers analyzed ten million tweets to map happiness in the U.S. Congrats, Napa. Buck up, Beaumont. Discussion Ideas: In their academic study, researchers analyzed individual words used in tweets across the nation. Can students list some “positive” and “negative” words? How do those words match up with the words researchers analyzed? Most positive: laughter, happiness, love, happy, laughed, … Continue reading Geography of Happiness

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New Maps Track the World in Flight

GEOGRAPHY A transportation planner has used flight data from around the world to create stunning kaleidoscope-style flight path visualizations. (Daily Mail) This animation offers another way to visualize similar data. Discussion Ideas: Look at the new images of global air traffic in the Daily Mail article or this BBC photo gallery. Now look at the “Lights at Night” layer in our MapMaker Interactive. Can students … Continue reading New Maps Track the World in Flight

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BioBlitzing on the Bayou

By Sean O’Connor As the sun shines at high noon over New Orleans this Friday, a group of more than one thousand scientists, students and curious people will spread out across the Barataria Preserve (a section of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve) as part of the 2013 National Geographic BioBlitz—their goal: identify and count as many species as possible, in 24 hours. This … Continue reading BioBlitzing on the Bayou

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Mapping Patagonia

In January of this year, cartographers and explorers Ross Donihue and Marty Schnure kicked off a cartographic expedition of Patagonia, a mountainous and archipelagic region at the bottom of South America. (Explore Patagonia with our MapMaker Interactive.) Fresh back from their months spent in the field, I caught up with Marty and Ross (also former interns at National Geographic and colleagues of mine) to hear about … Continue reading Mapping Patagonia

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