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Map of all the submarine cables on earth. How the internet gets from place to place.

Interactive map allows you to see what effect rising seas will have on your country.

Click on the "EARTH" icon and choose various options. It is Trippy!!!! An animated map of global wind and weather. Visit the community at https://www.facebook.com/EarthWindMap

This is really cool.

Hey, some of us have been mentioning this event in class; I know a lot of my students have been asking questions. Here are some related to it.

This is great, John. Thanks for sharing.

GDELT Global Dashboard Provided through the support of the United States Institute of Peace, this highly experimental prototype dashboard offers an overview of global protests (pink) and conflict (red) across the entire world, as monitored by the GDELT Project, combining a rolling animated map of the past 180 days (visualizing macro-level spatial patterns) with a clickable map of major events monitored over the past 24 hours, updated each morning by 6AM EST.

The interactive map and list includes the name of current president and prime ministers of countries of the World.

This visualization displays the total number of earthquakes Japan experienced in 2011 including the massive 9.0 that led to the tsunami.

Check this one out!!! I will post the World one too.

Click on the map to hear a short paragraph from various people around the world.

About This Quiz Most of the questions used in this quiz are based on those in the Harvard Dialect Survey, a linguistics project begun in 2002 by Bert Vaux and Scott Golder. The original questions and results for that survey can be found on Dr. Vaux's current website.

A look at declining populations and how it affects military and economic readiness. Includes several good maps.

This goes ahead to the Religion Unit, but it is a good visual on hearth and diffusion. Granted, it is missing Sikhism and other religions.....Maps-of-War is a multimedia site dedicated to producing diverse, creative visuals that enhance our understanding of war and its history.

While sort of basic, this was helpful for my visual learners and students still not grasping what Climate Change can look like. Click on the four different themes (increasing temp, rising sea level what ifs, etc.).