For both myself and Stringy, our blogs have both appeared in the appendix of a piece of research by Phil Wood on advances in e-learning in Geography, part of a new Geographical Association online publication. Thanks to Alan for the hat-tip.
Congratulations to all Kirk Hallam Humanities students, excellent results, best wishes for the future. 
miner at night
Originally uploaded by King Bingo.
I found this photo on flickr, it is of my home town Hucknall, nice starter image here… why is this statue near Tesco? Industrial change anyone…
The B.B.C. has jumped onto the map skills debate, with an interactive quiz…
Just bumping this…
In a brilliant idea blatantly ripped off from Alan, we would like students (future, present, and past), staff, and blog readers to send us a postcard from their holiday destination/s. Our intention is to use the postcards in our induction to Geography in Year.7.
For students, all postcards will be put into a hat, the first three out of the hat will receive a nice geographical prize.
I’ll report back on our findings later in the year.
Please send postcards to
The Geography Department, K.H.C.T.C., Godfrey Drive, Kirk Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 4HH. United Kingdom.
Image courtesy of the B.B.C.
According to the B.B.C. . The reason why? Resources, specifically oil. Global Warming has resulted in the ice becoming thinner, meaning the potential to exploit oil reserves under the sea is becoming more cost effective; of course, our known supplies of oil are also running out, any country in the future with control of huge reserves is likely to have immense political power.
Unlike Antarctica, which is internationally protected, the Arctic region, which is sea, is contested by Russia, the US, Canada and Denmark. According to international law, countries can have an economic zone of two hundred nautical miles from their coastline, but the ‘zone can be extended where a country can prove that the structure of the continental shelf is similar to the geological structure within its territory.’ Russia claims that the Lomonosov Ridge is part of their territory, this extends under the North Pole. Ironically it seems that Canada and Denmark could also claim extended territory using the Lomonosov Ridge.
A contested extreme environment, and potentially a situation with political and economic consequences.
For those of you interested in studying Geography to a higher level, I know of one ex-student who has applied to Manchester. This would make a great poster as well for the classroom. Hat-tip Robert Fuller, it would be nice to see more lecturers of Geography blogging, so that we can keep up-to-date with the movements in university Geography, this doesn’t seem to far away from the Geography represented in the Pilot.
From Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail today
The ridiculous Blair creature could have had anyone he wanted (well, not me actually) to dinner at Chequers.
The giants of arts and letters, philosophy and science, geographers who could have explained to him where Iraq was or historians who might have outlined what happened at Suez.
Anybody. But he invited radio super-oaf Chris Evans.
I suspect that he chose Evans after his aides gently explained to him that Homer Simpson wasn’t a real person.
