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AFRICA Herbs to the WORLD: This beautiful and detailed #map shows every #herb that grows native in #Africa and gives an idea of the countries and #regions where the herb is most common: Birthplace of Man-(and Woman)-Kind! The second largest continent on #Earth, Over 11 MILLION Image
square miles and over 1.4 BILLION people!

#Africa has such a huge variety of #geography, #flora, #fauna and #people that make it one of the most fascinating mix of #cultures and #traditions stretching back over 150, 000 years of #evolution.

With the culture of folk medicine,
cooking and the incredible array of native #plants Africa is truly a jewel of wealth when it comes to herbs.

#Thyme, a hardy #drought resistant plant, grows in the dry landscapes of #WesternSahara.

The #DemocraticRepublicofCongo with 80 Inches of rain a year, the highest
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#Punjab
#ਪੰਜਾਬ
#geography
دہلی سلطنت کےدوران پنجاب کتنابڑا تھا؟
لفظ "پنجاب" (پنجاب) فارسی کےدو الفاظ پنج (پنج) کا مجموعہ ھےجس کے معنی پانچ اور آب (آب) کےمعنی ہیں پانی۔
پنجاب" کی اصطلاح قرون وسطی کےدور میں ایک مبہم خطہ کے لیے استعمال ھوتی تھی۔ یہ کوئی سیاسی ادارہ یا ریاست نہیں تھی ImageImage
جسکی اپنی اچھی طرح سےمتعین سرحدیں تھیں۔
سادہ الفاظ میں پنجاب ایک جغرافیائی اصطلاح ھواکرتی تھی، سیاسی نہیں۔
پنجاب کاعلاقہ سلطان التمش کےدور میں دہلی سلطنت کاحصہ ھواکرتا تھا۔ تاہم اسکےبعد منگول حملوں نے پنجاب کے زیادہ ترحصےکو ان دوطاقتوں کےدرمیان میدان جنگ میں تبدیل کردیا۔
پنجاب کا
بیشتر حصہ اب بھی دہلی سلطنت کے کنٹرول میں تھا، لیکن اس کا کچھ حصہ منگول سلطنت کے کنٹرول میں تھا۔
دہلی سلطنت کے اندر پنجاب ایک متحد صوبہ نہیں تھا۔ پنجاب کا علاقہ، سلطنت دہلی کے دیگر علاقوں کی طرح، چھوٹی انتظامی اکائیوں میں تقسیم کیا گیا تھا جسے اقتا کہا جاتا تھا۔
اقتا کے سیاسی
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A mega #Thread compiling some lesser known facts that will make us rethink the #HumanCivilization & the extent of #Bharat
Plz read & share 🙏

1/12 let's start with #Ramayan!
In Rishi #Valmiki narrates the description of #Lanka given by Shri #Hanuman as a beautiful country with ImageImage
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chariots & vimanas. He also describes #FourTuskedElephant guarding #Ravan 's gates.
Now known as #Gomphothere , that roamed #Earth 19 million yrs ago! 🤯🚩

NO OTHER text in the world describes it!

In #Ramayan , #Sugriva sends #Vanar in 4 directions to look for Maa #Sita ImageImage
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While sending, he describes #Geography as follows
World #Geography >170,000 years was different than present
many parts of Himalaya & big mountain in Kentucky ,USA were submerged in water

So here is the story in more scientific way 💁‍♀️

Team travelling to #east, will have to Image
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Very excited to share my newest article in @ProgHumGeog! My main argument revolves around how geographers can strategically contribute to labor struggles under a changing climate and the need to bring under one umbrella research that / doi.org/10.1177/030913… Image
currently falls within the labor-environment nexus. Some of my key arguments are 1) worker-led mass movements will be key to overcoming the climate crisis, 2) our research needs a clearer strategic compass on how it can contribute to struggles on the ground /
3) New conversion demands in industrial sectors represent an example of current environmental labor struggles. I compare those to past debates motivated by a shift from defense to socially useful production, 4) as geographers we have useful analytical tools that can help draw /
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Feeling helpless at the scale of devastation in Turkey and Syria. Thinking of all those impacted.

If you have students who, like my disaster risk reduction class, want to understand what happened today, these links may help 👇

#Geography #TurkeyQuake
In these videos (2 parts) Remy Bossu explains that we can't predict earthquakes, what earthquakes are, what aftershocks are, and why the second 7+ quake today was not an aftershock. Also shows tectonic setting of the region:
This is the United States Geological Survey Earthquakes website, which provides up to date information about earthquakes worldwide and clearly shows the location and information for the quakes that impacted Turkey and Syria today: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ma…
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Canada is the world's second-largest country after Russia. The country stretches across 3.8 million square miles (9.9 million square kilometres). Canada is almost equal in size to China (9,596,961 sq km), but its proximity to the North Pole makes it look much larger than China.
The area north of the treeline: 2,728,800 km2, over 27% of Canada's total area.
Canada's land border: 8,890-km border with the United States, is the longest international border in the world.
#Canada is divided into numerous geographical zones. Average elevation is 487 m above sea level. The highest mountain peak (Mount Logan) is at 5,959 meters. The country has 52,455 mostly uninhabited islands in the open sea. #geography
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First cloud-free #Sentinel2 satellite images in a month dropped yesterday. Great to check out snow levels, reservoirs, and wet wet wet in the Butte Basin/Lower Sacramento River. First image compares Colusa area now vs 12/15/2022. #Geography #RemoteSensing #CaWx #CaStorm 1/x
Imagery paints a picture of soil types. Along the River, coarser soils settle quickly once floodwaters slow down. Blue areas have more clay, because super-fine soil particles can stay suspended longer, travel farther in slow-moving floodwaters. Orchards prefer coarse soils. 2/x
Plumes of sediment from the Pajaro and Salinas Rivers are still very visible in the Monterey Bay on 1/19/2023. Two visualizations of sediment in the lower Delta and San Pablo Bay. 3/x
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Comenzaremos a descubri el continente Asiático, empezaremos con el pais de Corea de Sur. Image
Antes de empezar con los lugares mas ideales para visitar dicho país voy a comenzar a dar un poco de información sobre Corea.
El país de #CoreadelSur, tiene como lengua oficial el coreano, que es hablando tanto en ambas Coreas 🇰🇷 y 🇰🇵 y en Yanbian ubicado en China Provincia de Jilin, prefectura fronteriza con corea del Norte. Tienen como escritura el Hangul, que fue creado por "Sejong el grande"
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Happy #ScholarSunday! Here is a compilation of crowd-sourced must reads in #EnvironmentalJustice.* Thanks again for all the contributions folks!

*disclaimer: this is what I could find from the recommendations. Alpha order S-Z🧵2/2

#geography #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
@DSchlosberg
Schlosberg, David. 2009. Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature. 1st edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
academic-oup-com.udel.idm.oclc.org/book/4798
Neil Smith (1954-2012)
Smith, Neil. 2016. “There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster.” Social Science Research Council (blog). 2016. items.ssrc.org/understanding-….
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Happy #ScholarSunday! Here is a compilation of crowd-sourced must reads in #EnvironmentalJustice.* Thanks again for all the contributions folks!

*disclaimer: this is what I could find from the recommendations. Alpha order A-R🧵1/2

#geography #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
@julianagyeman
Agyeman, Julian. 2013. Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice. London, UK: Zed Books.
julianagyeman.com/books/introduc…
Tom Beamish (protected twitter?)
Beamish, Thomas D. 2000. “Accumulating Trouble: Complex Organization, a Culture of Silence, and a Secret Spill.” Social Problems 47 (4): 473–98. doi.org/10.2307/3097131.
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Do you have expertise in #Health, #Environment and/or #Development in SE Asia?
Apply for a tt position as Asst. Prof at our Dept of #Geography .@UUtah -- a thread 🧵 with more deets below ! 1/5

Link to position description and application link utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/135215
2/5 Some example research in SE Asia for this hire include (but not limited to) #illness & #disease, #population, #environmental challenges & #inequality, #sustainability, #climatechange impacts, #agriculture & #foodsecurity, #urbanization, #development, #conflict, #migration...
3/5 ... #Diaspora...
We value diverse perspectives and seek to build more inclusive faculty, graduate, and undergraduate student bodies. Applicants from underrepresented backgrounds are encourage to apply by 1 September 2022.
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🧵THREAD: I’m now an #AppleTeacher with Portfolio Recognition!
Over the past year, this has been a fantastic professional learning experience, as I reflected on & developed how I integrate @AppleEDU #iPad in my classroom.
👀 Here’s my journey…
#AppleEDUchat #EveryoneCanCreate Image
Through #AppleTeacher Portfolio, a teacher creates a digital portfolio of 9 different lessons at three levels: Activate, Explore & Apply.
Teachers include aspirational examples, resources and — most importantly — reflections on each lessons.
#AppleEDUchat #EveryoneCanCreate Image
Activate Lesson 1: “Where do the animals live? Introduction to Global Climates”.
Students created a simple map showing the native habitat of animals using #Keynote on @AppleEDU #iPad
#AppleEDUchat #EveryoneCanCreate Image
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In Session 2, we focused on networks in #cultural and #creative industries: Building on the relations between UK #theatre workers, @ManfredideBern1 from @KingsCollegeLon showed the process of #CoProduction of #networks in space and time. (1/4)
Dominic Power analysed rural #female #artists’ work and #creativity in #Sweden. He found out that being in the #periphery does not automatically mean #isolation from the center or lesser #creative possibilities: Their networks go far beyond a classic #CorePeriphery model. (2/4)
Alice Bobée elaborated on the entanglement between #BusinessSchools’ cultural economic #geography and cities’ reputation: Facing reduced public #funding, #French business schools have set up campus in European cities, dissociationg themselves from their #national origins. (3/4)
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Sunday border scramble in the sun, near Malval in Geneva. Political borders seeming dauntingly less trivial this week, as we think of people in Europe fleeing to safety across borders, while soldiers invade across others. #Geography #BorderNerds 🇫🇷🇨🇭 ImageImageImage
No. 138 We chased down lots of border stones in a marshy wood, of different ages. This one was apparently moved to save it from being swept away by the stream, so the marks on top indicate this, showing that the border follows the stream after this point.🇨🇭🇫🇷 #Border #Geography ImageImageImageImage
No. 139 Super strange F (France) engraved backwards; G (Geneva) presumably recarved over previous mark/sign🇨🇭🇫🇷 #Border #Geography ImageImageImageImage
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New US #IndoPacific #Strategy!

Read full text here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

"The #PRC..pursues a sphere of influence in the Indo-#Pacific & seeks to become the world’s most influential power. The PRC’s coercion & aggression spans the globe, but..is most acute in..Indo-Pacific."
#INDOPACIFIC: The Region by the #s

#POPULATION: Over half the world’s people, including 58% of youth

#ECONOMY: 60% of global GDP

#GROWTH: 2/3 of global economic growth

#GEOGRAPHY: 65% of the world’s oceans &🌊 25% of its land

>#STRATEGY: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
From the new U.S. #IndoPacific #Strategy:

"The United States is the leading international provider
of education to students from the Indo-#Pacific—nearly 68% of international students studying in the United States hail from the region..."

Read full text: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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Now Out in Paperback! “#China Goes to #Sea: #Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective”

amazon.com/China-Goes-Sea…

@NavalWarCollege @ChinaMaritime is proud to publish this new version w/ @NavalInstitute @USNIBooks!

Come for the #maps, stay for the #history...
Honored to have #JonathanSpence’s endorsement:

“The maritime #history of #China has long been a neglected field..China Goes to Sea bring[s] that knowledge-gap to an end..will be an indispensable companion to those readers seeking to understand where China’s navy may be heading.”
As European #naval powers & even the @USNavy struggle with ship numbers, #China has gone to #sea.

Represents the reversal of a great historical trend that began 600 years ago, when China withdrew from the seas & European naval expansion spread Western influence around the globe.
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Many students ask me about SCM/Logistics Degree programs.
Go to any top business school at an Ivy League university.

Alternatively, you may choose to find some decent department of Economics that has a strong partnership with other faculties, such as Operations Research, Industrial or Transportation Engineering.
Many Transportation Economists also enter into SCM/Logistics or Inventory management using their knowledge of network models and game theory, etc.
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef spawns in explosion of color during recovery from damage

usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

#GreatBarrierReef #CoralBleaching #spawning #recovery
Research brief: Feedback considerations for grand challenges in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

#PublicPolicy #BiologicalFeedback #BiodiversityFeedback #models #HumanCommunities #MultidisciplinaryResearch
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1. Another question I constantly get: Can Chinese data be trusted? High Frequency data shop like Baidu or other private data source advertise their data showing similar thing as govt economic data, but more real time = acknowledgement of recent higher quality govt economic data.
2. Around 2014, the central government was extremely concerned that several northern provinces’ reported GDP numbers were overinflated by local officials. In 2016, the LiaoNing province in the north was asked to reduce its reported GDP figure by 22.4%.
3. 2018, after the fourth national economic census, 12 out of 15 northern provinces’ GDP estimates were adjusted lower, while 14 out of 16 southern provinces were adjusted higher. Jilin and HeilongJiang, both northern provinces, have respectively been adjusted down more than 20%.
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 09/01/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/dai…
"The Unthinkable Has Become Possible" - Germany Faces A Political Revolution In 4 Weeks

zerohedge.com/political/unth…

#germany #PartisanPolitics
Probability and rationality — trickier than most people think

larspsyll.wordpress.com/2021/08/26/pro…

#probability #rationality #heuristics #judgement
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Voltamos com a série #RaioXdosPaises ! Hoje trouxemos a Finlândia 🇫🇮.

O país mais feliz do mundo!

Comente o próximo país que deseja ver aqui.

#finlandia #finland #idh #hdi #pib #gdp #geografia #geography
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@AnnalsOfScience just published an article I wrote with my colleague @smolinab1 as part of our research on a chronological and cosmographical Tratado composed in the New Kingdom of Granada (c.1696) 🧵(1/17)
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
The manuscript presumably entitled "Treatise on astronomy and the reformation of time" is housed in the @BibliotecaNalCo. Using other sources (@ArchivoGeneral @Banrepcultural), we read this Tratado as part of the #earlymodern globalisation of Spanish cosmography (2/17) Heading of Sanchez's first ...
Under the influence of Spanish cosmography, the repertorios de los tiempos–books encompassing astronomical, agricultural, ecclesiastical, medical, and calendrical questions–incorporated cosmographical elements coming from Sacrobosco and the Theorica (3/17) Engraving of Jeronimo de Ch...
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