Strange Maps
JANUARY 31, 2024
Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died. Tsewang Paljor.
Anthropology.net
APRIL 4, 2025
Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again. In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date. Henrich, J.
Anthropology News
JULY 17, 2024
Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. We want them to learn how to claim space, because we grew up in Cape Town, but we don’t really know Cape Town.”
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 2, 2016
At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.
Living Geography
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. This webinar takes as its focus trajectories of deprivation in England using the Index of Deprivation (IoD) for several time points: 2004, 2007, 2010, 2015, and 2019 for common geographical areas (2021 Lower Layer Super Outputs Areas; LSOAs, which we consider as neighbourhoods).
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 9, 2024
Like many rural Americans, the people here are place-bound, their educational choices constrained by geography as much as by cost. When the Grand Hotel burned down, in 2015, a sense of resignation settled in, Glaser said. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote. The opening of three charter schools since 2015 hasn’t helped, costing the district students and the money that would come with them. Between 2015 — the year the charters opened — and 2018, public school enrollment declined by about 2,400.
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