Sunday, 20 July 2008
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Association of Public Health Observatories - Health Profiles Interactive
Health Profiles Interactive is a service new to Health Profiles 2008. It was designed to allow users to select indicators and areas for comparison through a map or list in an intuitive visual interface including the Health Profiles spine chart format.
The interactive atlases have been produced at several different geography levels to allow indicator comparisons over these geographies.
Association of Public Health Observatories - Health Profiles Interactive
Monday, 14 July 2008
China's £4bn drive to buy Africa's mineral wealth - Telegraph
Full scale work by the Chinese begins to rebuild 2,050 miles of roads in the Democratic Republic of Congo, left to rot in the rainforest after the Belgian colonialists pulled out 48 years ago and further shattered by seven years of war.
The vast project, which will triple Congo's current paved road network, is part of China's largest investment in Africa, a £4.5 billion infrastructure-for-minerals deal signed in January.
China's £4bn drive to buy Africa's mineral wealth - Telegraph
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
English dialect vocabulary
Recordings of all sorts of UK dialects and accents
English dialect vocabulary
BBC Correspondents Map by Stuart Pinfold
This is a map showing the location of news correspondants. Great for Geography in the news items
BBC Correspondents Map by Stuart Pinfold
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Wasting food | Environment | The Guardian
Waste not ...
We throw out 4.1m tonnes of food each year - the equivalent of £420 for every home. The government wants us to cut back, but how can we break our habit? Laura Barton and Jon Henley ask the experts for tips
Laura Barton and Jon Henley on how to break the habit of wasting food | Environment | The Guardian
Eight new natural wonders added to World Heritage list | Environment | guardian.co.uk
A Canadian fossil park, an Icelandic volcanic island and an archipelago in Yemen are among the latest sites to be added to the World Heritage list of natural wonders. Each year the IUCN World Conservation Union evaluates hundreds of nominated sites for the list in a bid to protect and preserve natural heritage around the world that is considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. There are 855 properties on the World Heritage list: 663 are of cultural importance, 166 of natural value and 26 are mixed sites
Eight new natural wonders added to World Heritage list | Environment | guardian.co.uk
URBAN EARTH
For the first time in human history more people are living in urban than rural places. Over the summer of 2008 URBAN EARTH will be travelling on foot across Mexico City, London and Mumbai to witness our increasingly URBAN EARTH.
URBAN EARTH
Monday, 7 July 2008
Sunday, 6 July 2008
placeSpotting.com | The online map game | solve
Go to the website and click CREATE.
Move and zoom the map until it shows an interesting place. Provide some hints for the person / friend who will try to solve the puzzle (a number of hints can be provided) and a message that they will see if the riddle is solved. After saving the quiz you can send it by mail to a friend or embed it in your homepage as a picture. The task is to find the place shown in your picture on a second google map.
The website has 6638 different quizzes stored. 108274 quizzes were solved and
927275 opened.
placeSpotting.com | The online map game | solve
Spain: Dark days for Brits who sought a life in the sun | World news
Spain: Dark days for Brits who sought a life in the sun | World news | The Observer
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Friday, 4 July 2008
Global Rich List
HOW RICH ARE YOU?
Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out. Just enter your annual income into the box below and hit 'show me the money'
The GLOBAL RICH LIST
Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out. Just enter your annual income into the box below and hit 'show me the money'
The GLOBAL RICH LIST
Thursday, 3 July 2008
BBC NEWS | World | Denmark 'world's happiest nation'
Denmark is the happiest country in the world, according to the latest World Values Survey published by the United States National Science Foundation.
The annual study surveyed people in 97 countries to discover who is happiest.
BBC NEWS | World | Denmark 'world's happiest nation'
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