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Swine Flu News - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Swine Flu Navigator A list of resources from around the Web about Swine Flu as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times. Swine Influenza Breaking News Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy News Focus: Influenza A(H1N1) United Nations News Service Key Facts about Swine Influenza Centers for Disease Control and Prevention FAQs about Swine Flu PandemicFlu.gov (U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services) U.S. Cases of Swine Flu Infection Centers for Disease Control and Prevention H1N1 (Swine) Flu Virus Vaccine Production U.S. Food and Drug Administration Understanding Flu: Cause, Transmission, Symptoms and Treatment National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Flu Guidance for Specific Groups and Industries Centers for Disease Control H1N1 Influenza Center The New England Journal of Medicine Timeline of Human Flu Pandemics National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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      Great set of influenza resources here in one place. Keep coming back to this page.
julia bleznak

Venezuela News - Breaking World Venezuela News - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Venezuela leader, driving the wealthy and intelligent out of the country
Jim Pickett

IRIN * humanitarian news and analysis from Africa, Asia and the Middle East - updated d... - 0 views

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    Good resource for broad-based UN news and issues, including access to data and MAPS
Jim Pickett

Everyman Offers New Directions in Online Maps - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The new world of map creation... the ultimate democracy, perhaps?
Jillian Williams

The More the Merrier (NY Times Article) - 0 views

  • technical progress — discoveries — are trial and error, and incentives.
  • but both are stimulated by population.
  • The more people on earth, the greater the chance that one of them has an idea of how to improve alternative energies, or to mitigate the climate effects of carbon emissions. It takes only one person to have an idea that can benefit many.
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      More People = More Ideas = Faster Results
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  • Plus, the more people on earth, the larger are the markets for new innovations.
  • incentives matter for innovative activity
  • ncentives to devote effort toward finding new discoveries and bringing them to the marketplace depend on the size of that marketplace.
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    Article about why increase in population good or climate control, etc.
Jim Pickett

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | The Box - 0 views

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    A fascinating series of stories detailing the travels of a shipping container. The stories go on for 1 year... WOW!
Jim Pickett

Moving Toward Quantum Computing - Science in 2011 - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Talking about geographic scale on a whole new level...
Kevin Collon

Resource: Human Geography: People, Places, and Change - 0 views

  • Human Geography combines economic and cultural geography to explore the relationships between humans and their natural environment, and
  • tionships
  • to track the broad social patterns that shape human societies
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  • . Imagining New Worlds
  • Reflections on a Global Screen
  • Global Firms in the Industrializing East
  • Global Tourism
  • . Alaska: The Last Frontier?
  • Population Transition in Italy
  • . Water Is for Fighting Over
  • A Migrant's Heart
  • Berlin
  • Changing
  • Center
  • . The World of the Dragon
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    Basic Definition of Human Geography
Max Sjöström

What is Geography? New Zealand - 0 views

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    Website about the definition of Geography
Jim Pickett

Foreign Policy: Revenge of the Geographers - 0 views

  • Victorian geography is back in vogue. In The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs blames geography for poverty, while in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond says that the different shapes of Eurasia and the Americas explain the course of global economic development. And now, in "The Revenge of Geography," Robert Kaplan suggests that states have had their day and that global society will dissolve into tribal conflicts over dwindling resources. He commends British geographer Halford Mackinder for his 1904 essay, "The Geographical Pivot of History," and its analysis of the geographical dynamics of the perennial struggle over Eurasia.For Kaplan, the appeal of environmental determinism is evident. It reduces otherwise complex theories of economic development or of international relations to a stable set of factors (such as climate, physiography, and location) and further suggests that the primary causes of social, political, and economic inequality lie outside the realm of human intervention. The revenge of geography centers on environmental realities that never cease to frustrate the grand schemes of men who would remake the world after their own ideals. But there are four problems with Mackinder's case, and ultimately Kaplan's argument, as he builds upon it. First, the fact that today's conflicts are in many of the same places as yesterday's is a testament not to the guiding hand of Mother Nature, but to the pitiful legacy of those earlier wars -- colonialism, political instability, and economic exploitation. (The British alone fought wars in Iraq during 1914-1918, 1920-1921, 1922-1924, 1943, and 1945, and in Afghanistan during 1839-1842, 1878-1880, and 1919, and of course are again in both places.) Second, cultural identities are created as distinct communities interact with one another, not through isolated communion with the Earth. Third, rich and powerful countries' interests in the affairs of poorer countries are driven as much by their economic needs as by the problems afflicting the poorer countries. Finally, for all the U.N.'s flaws, international relations are not solely structured around the threat of force; Wilsonian values are credible pillars of international institutions and affairs. Ideas matter more than Kaplan admits. None of these critiques is new and they were made by Mackinder's contemporaries. John Hobson, the author of the famous work, Imperialism: A Study (1902), wrote from a rich liberal tradition that was hostile to warmongering and he criticized the colonial wars that Mackinder celebrated. Élisée Reclus, who put together a monumental 19-volume survey of global geography, likewise argued that colonialism had serious and continuing consequences. In particular, Reclus showed that the commodification of land and resources produced food insecurity throughout indigenous societies. Another of Mackinder's contemporaries, geographer and anarchist Peter Kropótkin, insisted that identity was neither biological nor environmental fate, but rather a social creation enabling people to cultivate their higher natures. Mackinder, by contrast, saw colonialism as diffusing technology and civilized values to benighted savages. For him, environment determined racial character and this in turn dictated people's intellectual firepower and level of civilization. He saw a clear hierarchy of civilizations -- the further from Anglo-Saxon values you were, the more inferior your society. If we are to rehabilitate Victorian geography, as Kaplan attempts to do here, then, we must also recall its contested nature, and against simplistic environmentalism we must urge the relevance of a historical analysis that emphasizes colonialism, an understanding of cultures as dynamic and interdependent, and a recognition of the importance of cooperation, justice, and multilateral institutions.
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      Hits the point RIGHT on the head. Kearns, a Mackinder scholar, gets Kaplan's errors "just right".
Jim Pickett

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