Recently, I happened upon a great site called POIFriend.com, which features points of interest for all sorts of things, such as arts and entertainment, business and industry, food and beverage, etc. from all over the world. All you have to do is search for what you want, select from a list of POIs, and [...]
Continue Reading →If you’re like me, you are a fan of the Tour de France. I’m an athlete myself and think I’m pretty tough, but watching these 135 pound men scale mountains and sprint across finish lines in 21 different stages is truly exciting from a spectator’s standpoint. It turns out that I’m not the [...]
Continue Reading →“What are you doing next?” is the most popular question I’ve been asked this past year. As a senior in college, this question, at first, was extremely stressful. However, today I can confidently respond, “I’m going to Grad school,” which I’ve noticed is a popular response amongst my peers. Furthermore, the economic crisis has elicited [...]
Continue Reading →Recently in the news there have been stories of worker strikes in South Africa that are affecting the construction of stadiums that are to be used in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The workers are demanding pay raises and are halting their efforts in constructing stadiums until their demands are met. Organizers of the [...]
Continue Reading →Giving birth in the USA has become increasingly controversial, especially for women hoping to have a natural and intervention-free birth. Hospitals are becoming increasingly dependent on medicalized birth and as a response, many women are turning to alternatives including delivering at free-standing birth centers and home births. Meanwhile, home births continue to be threatened [...]
Continue Reading →Last September, as the big honchos of the financial world – the regulators and the bankers – were witnessing the imminent collapse of Lehman Brothers, they realized that they were facing a far bigger problem: The possible collapse of American International Group (AIG), the biggest insurance company in the world. If AIG [...]
Continue Reading →In one of the recent blogs posted on the Wired News website, I came across an interesting blog by Alexis Madrigal that discussed geothermal electricity production around the world and some of the big green-tech projects that are current or planned for the future. On the blog there is a pie chart that breaks [...]
Continue Reading →A group of UCLA geographers published a paper yesterday in the MIT International Review entitled “Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographic Theories and Satellite Imagery”. The UCLA team used purely open source data, including “Landsat ETM+, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Defense Meteorological Satellite, QuickBird”. Then used a variety of commons geographic analysis [...]
Continue Reading →Spring is around the corner and what does this mean to me? Yes it is lacrosse season and one of my favorite things to do is catch an early season college matchup. But, where can I go to watch a game? I decided to use the help of Finder!, Maker!, and also Continue Reading →
Australia’s southern state of Victoria has struggled to contain the brush fires that are tearing through the state. Police officials have confirmed the death of 181 people thus far, and expect that number to exceed 200.
Police suspect arsonists played a role in starting the blazes that have quickly gotten out of control. The fires [...]
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