On Fridays this spring, OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis is hosting free webinars. Here are some topics worth watching for:
A special thanks goes out to Mike Siegel and the Rutgers Cartography Lab. This is a great resource for students and for pros.
Science reports that the US Government now has 10,000 fewer STEM PhDs than it did a year before.
10% of all houses in Canada are in the floodplain, but the maps in Canada are out-of-date. It turns out that the question of whether they should update the maps to a more accurate outcome is being fiercely debated.
Check out this impressive sequence of annual maps designed to tell the evolving story of submarine cables. It would be easy to think that everything has gone to microwave or satellite communications, but these maps show an incredible growth in cables AND do it gorgeously.
England has a town, designed by architect John Simpson, that was started in 1993 and should be completed in 2028. With roughly 5,000 residents, Poundbury is an experiment in planning, design, and social engineering which has been built with support along the way from Prince/King Charles (who studied architecture in school).
ICD-11 is the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision. It is a list of nearly 90,000 things that you could worry about.
Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 - Deleted 11 days from September 1752 in order to shift the calendar. Modified the calculation of the date for Easter.
The Catalan Vault is a brickwork arch that allows more open ceilings. Maybe you have seen it in a Gilded Age house or Grand Central Station.
George Wyllie - described himself as a "scul?tor" because his works always asked questions.
Inside Higher Ed: 87 percent of Gen Z said they feel unprepared to succeed at work due to limited guidance, unclear paths to career from school and uncertainty about which skills matter most.
