between dominant visuality and the counter-visualities emerging from the Mediterranean Sea, a particular sea-space where on the one hand, violent geopolitics daily act against migrants' crossing; on the other hand, new imaginative geographies emerge against coloniality devices of power and knowledge. ...
Trade links between the Roman Empire and Scandinavia gave Rome some knowledge of Sweden. TheGermania(written 98ce) ofTacitusgives the first description of the Svear, or Suiones (Swedes), stated to be powerful in men, weapons, andfleets. Other ancient writers who mention Scandinavia arePtolemy...
A recent edition of theNew Scientisthas an interesting article about dinosaurs and the rapid shifts in our knowledge of these ancient beasts based on recent fossil discoveries. If theNew Scientistis to be believed, these discoveries have not only revolutionized our views of dinosaurs, they have al...
Charles Embree had acquired an excellent historical and geographical knowledge of the region at a time when American travelers to the lake were few and far between. Geo-Mexico believes that Charles Fleming Embree fully deserves to be declared an ...
it is found that the act of taking deep breaths sends amygdala a message that everything is OK. This, in turn, leads the amygdala to calm down and other essential functions to take over. This simple explanation of a complex process is an excellent way of imparting great knowledge to kids...
and if there was a bias towards assuming Kansas was the flattest state. This blog post focuses more on the details associated with the first goal, while the article posted below has the description of The American Geographical Society’s Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey that provided data ...
which is designed to generate new knowledge about the ways in which the physical and mental health of a population shapes their social and economic outcomes. The Health Foundation have funded a number of research projects already that focus on understanding the relationship between a given population...
This water is being used in agriculture, drinking water, and more. This is why it’s important to have good spatial knowledge of groundwater. Groundwater activity can be understood by its rock types, soil, land use, and rainfall. Remote sensing groundwater prospect zone maps are used to lo...
The National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, CONABIO), has identified 81 distinct areas in Mexico that have mangroves with “biological significance and in need of varying degrees of ecological rehabilitation” (...