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go slow, save energy
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/09/speed-energy.html
Japan low speed limit, and you lose your license for violating.
lightweight K-cars that are taxed much less
long history of aerial ropeways, with 1644 engraving
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/01/aerial-ropeways-automatic-cargo-transport.html
men and going to the doctor
http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20040205
Chad has one psychiatrist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24037696
antique maps of Africa
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/04/rediscovering-african-geographies.html
China cartogram with reference inset
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/10/map-of-week-10-17-2011-gridded.html
http://xiaoji-chen.com/blog/2011/population-power-chart-of-chinese-provinces/
Which prompted me to learn that Tibet's population is a whopping 3 million people. (Well, the province anyway; some claim 6 million Tibetans over all, elsewhere.) Xinjiang, the giant province to the north, has 25 million. Qinghai and Ningxia to the north east have about 6 million each. Most of China's population really is in the eastern half or even third, where the rain and greenstuff are. Also puts "Free Tibet" in a new perspective for me. Bhutan is under 800,000! OTOH, Nepal is 27 million. Its capital Kathmandu has 700,000, comparable to most of Bhutan.
US population density map with spikes
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/12/map-of-week-12-12-2011us-population.html
stereotype maps
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2012/03/map-of-week-3-12-2012the-world.html
I like my physical globe, but Google Earth does make a nice virtual one. Especially after I found the nighttime lights layer: Gallery/NASA/Earth City Lights.
new solar cooker
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/gosun-stove-reinvents-solar-cooking.html
says Chinese cooking is rooted in fuel scarcity and need to cook
through quickly
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flipped classroom
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-post-lecture-classroom-how-will-students-fare/279663/
Feynman lectures on web
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
Fargo to be taller than DC
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/13/dakotah_place_fargo_s_going_to_have_a_new_tallest_building.html
The US used to have postal banking
US postal banking
http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/us-postal-service-saturday-delivery-postal-banking-52778/
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/09/speed-energy.html
Japan low speed limit, and you lose your license for violating.
lightweight K-cars that are taxed much less
long history of aerial ropeways, with 1644 engraving
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/01/aerial-ropeways-automatic-cargo-transport.html
men and going to the doctor
http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20040205
Chad has one psychiatrist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24037696
antique maps of Africa
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/04/rediscovering-african-geographies.html
China cartogram with reference inset
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/10/map-of-week-10-17-2011-gridded.html
http://xiaoji-chen.com/blog/2011/population-power-chart-of-chinese-provinces/
Which prompted me to learn that Tibet's population is a whopping 3 million people. (Well, the province anyway; some claim 6 million Tibetans over all, elsewhere.) Xinjiang, the giant province to the north, has 25 million. Qinghai and Ningxia to the north east have about 6 million each. Most of China's population really is in the eastern half or even third, where the rain and greenstuff are. Also puts "Free Tibet" in a new perspective for me. Bhutan is under 800,000! OTOH, Nepal is 27 million. Its capital Kathmandu has 700,000, comparable to most of Bhutan.
US population density map with spikes
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/12/map-of-week-12-12-2011us-population.html
stereotype maps
http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2012/03/map-of-week-3-12-2012the-world.html
I like my physical globe, but Google Earth does make a nice virtual one. Especially after I found the nighttime lights layer: Gallery/NASA/Earth City Lights.
new solar cooker
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/gosun-stove-reinvents-solar-cooking.html
says Chinese cooking is rooted in fuel scarcity and need to cook
through quickly
***
flipped classroom
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-post-lecture-classroom-how-will-students-fare/279663/
Feynman lectures on web
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
Fargo to be taller than DC
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/13/dakotah_place_fargo_s_going_to_have_a_new_tallest_building.html
The US used to have postal banking
US postal banking
http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/us-postal-service-saturday-delivery-postal-banking-52778/