Was wandering the internet creating a scavenger hunt to challenge my kids re/search skills, and came across this website.
From IUCN, The World Conservation Union, it is an atlas of watersheds. Again there are both online and .pdf versions of the maps. And a wonderful selection of information about each of the watersheds involved…area, landcover and [...]
Worldmapper has to be the most interesting resource I’ve bumped into in a while. Maps of the world, where apparent landmass is determined by a variable… meat exports, girls in secondary school, patents granted, etc.
Every map (equal area cartograms actually) includes a link to a PDF poster version for printing, the data files used to [...]
Something tells me this will be useful… but I am not sure where right now. It is a collection of people reading a paragraph in english: sorted by native language and birthplace, so you get to hear the accents.
Maybe it will come to me as soon as I stop thinking about how great the girls [...]
