This article relates to our "cartographic aggression" discussion.  China is redrawing maps to include disputed territories within its boundaries.

Interesting news story that presents evidence for the advent of soup prior to the Neolithic Revolution (10,000 y.a.).  This artifact seems to suggest that humans had developed means of cooking much earlier than previously thought.

In this lecture at MIT, Thomas Friedman, author of "The World is Flat," describes the forces that have brought about our globalized society.

Frontline episode examining the impact of digital technology on our lives.

Bizzarre (& scary "commercial) from North Korea implying that a major US city will be victimized by a rocket attack.

A very interesting interview with Andy Carvin, the NPR strategist who tweeted and re-tweeted stories about the Arab Spring.  He discusses issues of journalistic integrity, news in the age of social media, and shares a powerful story of an individual who used social media to create manuals for use by rebels in Libya.

Will you survive?  Play this game to see if you could survive in a developing country.  This game is station #2 of the globalization & development activity.

Khanna uses maps to show how the roots of border conflicts and proposes "simple" solutions.  An option for station 4 of the globalization & development activity.

"Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing as it never has before."  An option on station 4 of the globalization & development packet.

Google posts suspected North Korean concentration camps on GoogleMaps.  Is this a new form of activism?

Clip from the West Wing in which "Cartographers for Social Equality" explain the inherent biases of the Mercator projection

Dr. Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, presents a lecture that uses statistics to illustrate global poverty and argues that this systematic poverty is a violation of human rights.  (November 2012)

An interactive website that includes photographs of China (1850-1959)

A fun game to review your map and investigate World Heritage Sites.

Photographer Lisa Kristine documents the plight of slaves in contemporary Nepal and Congo.

The speaker addresses the issue of slavery in the contemporary world by presenting ideas on how to fight this despicable phenomena.

Although Mali's Islamist rulers have outlawed music, some musicians risk their lives to share their message. 

An interesting story about a Tunisian singer and songwriter who is described as the "voice of the Tunisian Revolution"

TedTalk about ordinary people in Israel & Iran using social networking to counter government blustering on war.