92% of the world's data was created in the past 2 years. #bigdata #analytics #innovation #TuesdayThoughts #UX #tech #socialmedia #data. Fast food England: how many takeaways are near you? The total number of takeaway food shops in England has risen by 4,000 since 2014, an increase of 8% to 56,638 outlets, according to Cambridge University’s Centre for Diet and Activity Research.
Guardian analysis shows that the poorest areas of the country have disproportionately higher numbers of fast food outlets. Among the worst affected are northern cities such as Manchester and Leeds, low-income boroughs of London and seaside resorts in the south of England. Use our interactive map to get the full picture for your area of interest – just enter your postcode or the name of any local authority. 10 Tips for Tweeting Teachers. Reading Time: 8 minutes.
After several years of tweeting, it’s about time I published my own Tips for Tweeting Teachers. 10 Tips for Tweeting Teachers This list is designed for teachers new to Twitter, or for those who have started out and need advice. In the blog, I have divided my top-10 suggestions into three levels for beginners, intermediate and advanced users. Audio Player Beginners: Create a professional account for tweeting about teaching. Decide if you want to have a private (locked) account. 2.Start by creating a handle. @TeacherToolkit stemmed from what I do. Add a profile image that is good in quality. 3.Define a purpose for your Twitter account. If you do not have a purpose for using Twitter from a teaching perspective, your account will become muddled between personal updates and teaching information. Every Twitter hashtag – relating to education – can be found here. Associated Press Interactive.
There's something quite satisfying about seeing 10 different map projections alongside one another... Here's how successful people use the summer to get ahead. India is rolling out trains with solar-powered coaches that’ll save thousands of litres of diesel. Devdutt Pattanaik is a man on a mission. With his prolific writings on mythology—whether from the point of view of management, children’s books, everyday wisdom, or queerness—he hopes to influence the way society perceives myth, and in turn, itself. His three recent book releases have bumped up his bibliographical count to over 40 and we aren’t even counting the many articles he writes or the lectures he gives. While other authors go around promoting themselves one book in hand, this man writes like one possessed. As a river dies: India could be facing its ‘greatest human catastrophe’ ever. INDIA: Much of the once bountiful and lush-green rice fields was reduced to a dry, yellow-brown landscape, after successive years of scanty rainfall and severe drought.
For farmer Mr Vijayakumar, 52, the rice crop was his family’s sole source of income. Hit by the double whammy of crop failure and mounting debts, he took a lonely walk to the edge of his two-acre rice field in Tamil Nadu in January this year. There the tough, rugged man, used to the hard toil of a farmer for decades, hanged himself from a nearby tree.
New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040 in UK. New diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution, the government is set to announce.
Ministers will also unveil a £255m fund to help councils tackle emissions from diesel vehicles, as part of a £3bn package of spending on air quality. The government will later publish its clean air strategy, favouring electric cars, before a High Court deadline. Campaigners said the measures were promising, but more detail was needed. They had wanted government-funded and mandated clean air zones, with charges for the most-polluting vehicles to enter areas with high pollution, included in the plans. After a protracted legal battle, the government was ordered by the courts to produce new plans to tackle illegal levels of harmful pollutant nitrogen dioxide.
Judges agreed with environmental campaigners that previous plans were insufficient to meet EU pollution limits. Analysis By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment correspondent. Aftermath of a huge hailstorm in Grottammare, Marche, Italy this afternoon, July 25. Report: Remo Croci. DRP News Bulletin 10 July 2017 (Private Companies Exit Unviable Large Hydro Projects)
In a remarkable trend emerging in hydro sector in Himachal Pradesh, many leading private companies have started surrendering hydro power projects allotted to them by State Govt.
As per the news report, Tata Group, Reliance, Jindal and Larsen & Toubro have either surrendered or are in process of surrendering numbers of hydro projects given to them over past one and half decade. These companies are now increasingly terming the projects as non-viable and unprofitable. Planning ideas for September? This 'me-in-a-bag' activity encourages pupils to reveal their hobbies & interests! China's vertical forest will fight pollution and produce 60kg of oxygen a day. Read more. Great #geography themed cakes! Jordan's Azraq becomes world's first clean energy refugee camp.
The plant stretches out into the desert. © IKEA Foundation/Vingaland AB AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan – Thousands of Syrian families will light up their homes, charge their phones and chill their food by solar power tonight, as Jordan’s Azraq camp becomes the first refugee camp in the world to be powered by renewable energy.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, switched on Azraq’s new two-megawatt solar photovoltaic plant on Wednesday. It will provide clean energy free of charge to some 20,000 Syrian refugees living in shelters that have been linked up to the electricity grid since January. The grid is due to be expanded to all 36,000 refugees currently residing in the camp by early next year. The plant was built at a cost of €8.75 million (US$9.6 million), funded entirely by the IKEA Foundation’s “Brighter Lives for Refugees” campaign. Apps for Geography Fieldwork. Posted on March 12, 2017 by R Chambers With preparations underway for fieldwork to support students with the new AS and A2 specifications and to provide them with tools that may be useful for their independent investigations I have been exploring options for useful apps to take into the field.
The screenshot below is a small selection of some the key ones that we hope to use during fieldwork over the next couple of months. #geographyteacher If you've not come across @windyforecast yet, prepare to fall in love with it! Therapeutic and beautiful too. Get the app. Without good data, it's tough to know if we're making progress to #EndPoverty. Thankfully, new tech is here to help. Some fantastic images on the @UnequalScenes website to be put into lessons for analysis! Why are wetland lagoon ecosystems important? Find out in our new podcast with Dr Sian Davis Vollum @DerbyUni #Ghana.
Really great little animation showing population change! #geographyteacher #population □ In #Bangladesh, #solar based mini-grids provide electricity to whole communities and help boost local businesses @WBG_Energy #solarpower. Check out this @Esri blog to learn 12 things you can do with @EsriStoryMaps you may not have thought of #Esri. Command words bloom. These are the world's most digitally advanced countries @IBGC_Fletcher. AGuidetoReadingyourResearchLandscapemerged. Visited my new classroom for September today and the back drop pleases me no end. #OSMap #SouthEast □ Making machines the answer to deforestation. Read more.
Looking for NEA support? Have a look at our new ArcGIS posters #geodataskills. Government to recruit new Head of Geography to advance, represent and raise the profile of geography in government. Confident with the NEA or not? We're working on resources with @FSCPublications & @OpenUniversity so let us know! Education Video Library. There's a buzz around Stockholm. Read more. "The Spaceship". The famous Booker, Texas supercell. June 3, 2013. By Marko Korosec #weatherphoto.