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14 Oct

Map of the Week: The Most Popular Lullaby From Every Country

By: Abigail Vandenberg Sit back and relax while looking over this week’s highlighted map. Lullabies are widely used to help children fall asleep at night. Every culture on Earth uses some form of lullaby because everyone on Earth goes to...
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12 Oct

Geographical Review Preview: COVID-19 Mortality in New York City across Neighborhoods by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity Status

By: Samantha Friedman and Jin-Wook Lee What is the main purpose of your study? The purpose of our study is to use descriptive and mapping analyses to examine the COVID-19 mortality rates at the zip-code tabulation area level (ZCTA) as...
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7 Oct

Map of the Week: 2021 Fall Foliage Map

by Jessie Woldstad For many, it’s considered to be the most beautiful time of the year–the world’s trees erupt into a vibrant display of oranges, yellows, and reds. As the days fall shorter and summer nears its end, trees prepare...
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5 Oct

Geographical Review Preview: American ‘Populism’ and the Spatial Contradictions of US Government in the Time of Covid-19

By: John Agnew What is the main purpose of your study? Donald Trump was supposedly elected as President in 2016 on a populist-nationalist platform of “Making American Great Again.” Yet, during the pandemic of 2020 he was unable to put...
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30 Sep

Map of the Week: Mapping Major UN and Western Sanctions

By Ruqaiyah Zarook Throughout much of modern history, sanctions have been used to persuade, dissuade, and generally influence the behavior of governments for political ends, whether during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, the 2014 Crimean Crisis, or through the ongoing...
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29 Sep

Company Spotlight: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

By Samantha Hinton In 2010, Haiti experienced one of the world’s most catastrophic earthquakes, with impacts still lingering today. Although it only lasted 30 seconds, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed an estimated 200,000 people. Last month, in August 2021, another...
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28 Sep

Geographical Review Preview: The coronavirus pandemic and American neoliberalism

By: Barney Warf What is the main purpose of your study? To specify the factors that have made the U.S. uniquely vulnerable to the pandemic, including long-term structural inequalities and the mismanagement of the Trump administration. The paper illustrates that...
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27 Sep

Welcome, Fall 2021 Scholar-Interns

Throughout the year, the American Geographical Society maintains a staff of Scholar-Interns to keep things humming. Our interns help report on the news of the day for DailyGeo, produce new content for our regular Map of the Week and Company...
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23 Sep

Map of the Week: A Short History of International Borders

By: Abigail Vandenberg International borders are widely accepted as immovable and ancient boundaries. Even within a twenty-first century atmosphere of innovations, progress, and change, the placements of land borders are revered as long standing and permanent. After all, the border...
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16 Sep

Map of the Week: Submarine Cables

By Abigail Vandenberg Did you know that submarine fiber optic cables are currently enabling you to view this blog post on your screen? 99% of our international data today is transmitted by underwater cables. This new edition of TeleGeography’s Submarine...
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