China during the Spring and Autumn period 771BC – 476BC – Maps on the Web

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You’re tired of hearing about it? (another slam dunk from jon stewart…)

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You’re tired of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.

 

Lavenham, Suffolk, England,UK

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Between_Autumn_and_Winter_by_vitphoto

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Red Square, Moscow

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May I suggest an area of enquiry?  As a child of the early Cold War and black and white television, it was very easy to be frightened by images from Eastern Europe; everything was so grey and grim looking.  Slowly colour TV became widely available and images from behind the Iron Curtain proved to be anything but grey and grim.  Might this have played some small part undermining the ideology underpinning the Cold War in the West?

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Baroque Angels / St. Nicholas Church / Pipe organ / fresco / Golden Angels / Prague by Rita Crane Photography on Flickr

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Map of clan distribution in Somalia – Maps on the Web

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Source: lib.utexas.edu

 

Cost of Air Pollution in Europe

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This map from the European Environmental Agency shows the estimated economical cost of air pollution across Europe.Note that this includes industry only, so not transportation.The full report shows that most of the pollution comes from energy production. In fact 50 % of pollution comes from just 1 % of the facilities listed, mostly coal fired power plants.

Source: eea.europa.eu

 

How to Make (and Keep) a Traveler’s Hippocratic Oath

Everywhere Once

Tours you can take, although we’ll pass

First, do no harm.

It’s an oath sworn by physicians and a pledge that every traveler should make as well. As guests in the places we visit the very least we can do is respect our hosts by not hurting their country or their people.

Unfortunately such pledges are easier made than kept. That’s especially true in areas of the world that lack strong regulations protecting vulnerable populations. It’s not uncommon to see plenty of exploitive activities marketed to tourists. And sometimes those activities are even cleverly disguised to prey on our very desire to do good.

Visiting and volunteering in a children’s orphanage in Cambodia, for example, sounds like a good way of directing your travel dollars to a worthwhile cause. That is until you learn about the fake orphanages that separate children from their parents for the sole purpose of separating…

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Solidarity #NotOneDime #BlackoutBlackFriday #Ferguson

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