To explain the potential impact of North Korea's missile program, Reuters published this unusual map, which places North Korea at the center to illustrate the ranges of its missiles, both current and in development. (The light-colored part is land.) For more background on North Korea's nuclear program, see fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/NORTHKOREA-MISSILES/010031V7472/index.html
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Philosophy doesn't often make headlines, but The New York Times recently ran an article about Italian philosopher Julius Evola. Why? Because Evola was referenced by Trump advisor Stephen Bannon in a 2014 speech. Influenced by Nietzsche and part of the post-WWI Dada movement, Evola believed, among other things, that the Enlightenment ideals of equality, individualism, and social progress were part of a "newly emerged disorder" and that "a general antidemocratic cleansing" is necessary. (I pulled these quotes from Evola's Men Among the Ruins. Evola strikes me as not unlike Nietzsche but nuttier and less pithy and readable.) Evola was embraced by Mussolini but broke with Italy's Fascists because he considered them too half-hearted; he preferred the Nazis. His writings were later embraced by Italian neo-fascist groups in the 1960s and '70s and far-right movements in the U.S. and Europe. To read the NYT article, see https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/world/europe/bannon-vatican-julius-evola-fascism.html
This map was assembled based on the results of a 2013 Gallup poll asking roughly 1000 people in each of 65 countries around the world which country they thought was the greatest threat to world peace. brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-peace/
Learning about one's family tree is a fun way to personalize geography and world history. The National Archives in Washington, DC, will be hosting a half-day genealogy camp for kids ages 12 and up from July 10-14. "This hands-on week-long camp will introduce the basics of genealogy research. Discover how to use the resources of the National Archives to be history detectives into your past!" I think it's even free :-). To register or get more information, send an e-mail to <education@nara.gov> with "Genealogy Camp" in the subject line. www.archives.gov/calendar/event/genealogy-camp-for-kids-at-the-national-archives
One of the activities I do with certain of my geography classes is design our own city: what kinds of residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, and open spaces would we want in our city, where should we put them, and why? To date, I have never had a class put forth "mobile home park" as a residential option, and most students have no idea what one is even though mobile homes comprise more than 40% of all housing in parts of the U.S. This map shows the prevalence of mobile homes as a percentage of housing units. d36tnp772eyphs.cloudfront.net/blogs/1/2015/05/mobile-940x750.jpg
Where are coups most likely to occur in 2017? A social scientist and a data scientist teamed up to create a model that considers a wide range of variables -- from how long the current leader has been in power and whether s/he was chosen democratically to economic growth and infant mortality to the spread of cellphone ownership and Internet access -- to assess a country's vulnerability to a coup. This chart shows the results, with Burundi and Thailand leading the list.. For more, read their article from the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog: www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/31/where-are-coups-most-likely-to-occur-in-2017
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