Happy Labor Day: This map, based on the most recent Census data, details where households have bounced back from the 2008 recession and where they have not.
http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/data/highlights/files/2014/F2_MP_14.pdf
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Artificial intelligence meets ethics: earlier this week it was announced that companies involved in commercializing artificial intelligence are now trying to develop a code of ethics governing its use "to ensure that A.I. research is focused on benefiting people, not hurting them.""[F]ive of the world’s largest tech companies are trying to create a standard of ethics around the creation of artificial intelligence. While science fiction has focused on the existential threat of A.I. to humans, researchers at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and those from Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have been meeting to discuss more tangible issues, such as the impact of A.I. on jobs, transportation and even warfare."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/technology/artificial-intelligence-ethics.html This one's not actually a map: it's a cartogram, which is essentially a map that's been weighted for a particular variable. In this case, the variable is tropical storm frequency and intensity. (An area that looks "swollen" has more than its share of tropical storms; an area that looks "shrunken" has less.)
http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/TropicalStormsCartograms.png Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University will be talking about his new book The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East on Wed., Sept. 8 from 12-2 pm at GWU's Elliott School of International Affairs. This is free and open to the public. (It doesn't say so, but these events almost always include a light lunch too :-).)
https://elliott.gwu.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D120123161 ~~~ I am only teaching "Mission Possible:Global Issues, Leadership Choices," my world affairs class/simulation for 7th-12th graders, by special arrangement this fall. If interested, please contact me. The Institute for Economics & Peace released its 2016 Positive Peace Index yesterday. This map makes it easy to observe how closely the factors for positive peace -- low levels of corruption, equitable distribution of resources, sound business environment, acceptance of the rights of others, etc. -- correlate to actual peace around the globe.
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