This section features links to articles, videos, and other resources–all sorted by topic.
Spatial Thinking
Vivid Map collections
Metric Maps collections
TedTalk Ways of Seeing
TedTalk Actually the world isn’t flat
Geospatial Technologies & Cartography
Why western maps shrink Africa
TedTalk New York before the City
Geospatial Revolution Ep. 1 and Ep. 4
Census 2014 Economic rankings
TedTalk Maps that show us who we are
High-Res Historical maps
Haiti’s cholera epidemic & Snow’s map
Olympic races in your neighborhood
Plastic’s impact maps
YouTube’s Map Men
Hurricane Harvey’s impact in other states
Hurricane Harvey TX towns before & after
Central Park’s Light Post trackers
Miscellaneous
Distance Decay Case Study
PBS’s Goats and Soda
Malala’s Story: Class Dismissed NYT
Where is North Korea (comedy)
Housing Markets shifts after hurricane (LA)
Climate Change & the NW Passage
Great Green Wall & Desertification
Italian Towns before and after earthquake
Population Geography
Changing Populations & Age Structures
China’s One-Child Policy: Reunions
One year after China’s One-Child Policy
Demographic Transition & Population Pyramids
India: Low TFR as sustainable choice
Declining total fertility rates
Cultural Geography
Extreme Lip plates in Suri Women
Just like my mother: inherited traits and tragedies
In Amish country, the future is calling
Japan no place for single mothers
Girls rule in an Indian Village
Isolated tribes initiating contact
Tibetan nomad traditions defy the modern world
Changing social norms could save your life
How Japan copied American culture and made it better
No 1 Scrabble Nation in the world is…
Visual History of Homes in America
Polite at the dinner table around the world
Geography of Language
How language shapes the way we think
How languages change and evolve
Korean factory worker vocabulary
Is there any place where people don’t speak with an accent
A new way of looking at the world’s languages
Latinos imitate each others accents
The last of a dying languages speakers
BBC Pidgin service in W. Africa
Thrash Metal Band reviving Maori
8 British expressions, explained
Norse phrases that are in English
Words from German that don’t mean what you think
Religious Geography
Jerusalem: Securing Sacred Places
Jerusalem: Three religions, three faiths
Artists battle burkini ban in France
Destroyed artifacts recreated in 3D
Do not wear hijab in solidarity
What Muslim women want you to know
What it’s like to be Muslim woman in America
Orthodox Jewish women in New York
Political Geography
Don’t ask me where I’m from, ask me where I’m local
Rwanda’s Genocide & Reconciliation
US/September 11th and Patriotism (centripetal)
Education post-civil war in Sierre Leone
Arab Spring: A Year of Revolution
Kashmir: Why India and Pakistan fight over it
Understanding Native American Sovereignty
What you need to know about South China Sea disputes
What remains of the utopia of Brasilia
Berlin Wall section removed amid row
How megacities are changing the map of the world
Exclaves and enclaves explained
Failure of US to send condolences to Mexico after earthquake
Gerrymandering explained, and again
America’s most gerrymandered districts
Trevor Noah: Why the White People should move
Can tribal sovereignty overcome corporate sovereignty?
John Oliver: Why territories don’t have full voting rights
State of Puerto Rican Statehood
Monty Python Treaty of Westphalia
Architecture as Nationalism: Accra Ghana
1500 Americans river party wash up in Canada
The map of the US with only 38 states
Panhandles/proruptions explained
Lack of Knowledge, Increased Call for Intervention
Mapping the future of countries
How the Middle East fell apart
Geography of Agriculture
Guns, Germs, and Steel (discovery of ag)
Slash & Burn, Ep. 1, 2, 3, and 4
Seaweed in S America Food Security
Dairy farmers deserve a fair price
Deforestation in Borneo (plantation ag)
CA Crops rot as immigration rates fall
Transylvania: Transhumance threatened
Fun in Philippines: Rice farming
Tanzania’s Reality TV: Female Farmers
Second Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution in Nigeria Today
Diffusion of Ag Info in the 1950s
Guerilla cartographers put food on the map
Super-Size: 21st c. Agriculture
Random acts of conservation H20 in MN
Free range piggery in Australia
Random internet glitch = Kansas farm digital hell
Geography of Industry
Detroit’s Decline: Photo Essay
Detroit: Ruins with population loss
Ted: Understanding the Rise of China
Persistence of Manufacturing in Deindustrialized US
Maquiladora: Manufacturing in Mexico
PBS America Revealed Electric Nation
PBS America Revealed Made in USA
PBS Newshour Why Manufacturers returning to US
Importance of US Manufacturing
Ted Next Manufacturing Revolution
Interactive Map: Every Cargoship
NPR’s Jackie Northam on a Cargo Ship
Development
Millenium Goals: Progress Check
17th Sustainable Development Goal
Hans Roling: Asia’s Rise TedTalk
IMF: Empowering Women is Smart Economics
How Africa can keep rising TedTalk
Affluent, Black and Still Trapped
Reality TV: Week as a Ugandan Woman
Naptime at Ikea in China (NYT)
Starbucks and Steel: Divergent Directions in China
Religious co-existence and gender equality in India
Shea Butter: Sustainable Development
Hans Rosling: How to end poverty in 15 years
Richest v. Poorest (short video)
If you shouldn’t call it the Third World…
How the Racial Wealth Gap was Created: Power of Illusion
Urban/Services Geography
Housing Policies and Segregation
Racist policies that shaped our cities
Central Ave: Mpls Immigrant niche
City design to manipulate behavior
Twitter employee cannot afford to live in San Fran
Why European cities are so dense?
How Queens became NYCs largest borough
Why people are leaving US cities
When integrating the suburbs isn’t enough
European cities: Importance of capital cities
Landscape morphology Mexico City
Why women should be designed for women
DC rappers love song to gentrification
Gentrification before and after
Real Geography 