geography
Wiki
- : 🌏 continent: A continent is generally considered to be a large expanse of contiguous land, ideally on its own tectonic plate. For …
- : 🌏 the Americas: The Americas (in Spanish: América) are, depending on your perspective, a continent or the collective name of two …
- : 🌏 Ukraine: Ukraine is a relatively large country in Eastern Europe, bordered on the east and north by its giant neighbour Russia, …
- : 🔬 wet-bulb temperature: The wet-bulb temperature is the temperature at which a damp cloth wrapped around a lit lightbulb doesn’t dry, …
- : 🌏 Trewartha climate classification: Glenn Thomas Trewartha created this adaption of the Köppen climate classification system in 1966 in order to address …
- : 🌏 Köppen climate classification: Wladimir Köppen designed this system in the late 19th century to describe climate types in parts of the world. As he was …
- : 🌏 Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, and formerly part of the USSR. It is the ninth-largest country in …
- : 🌏 Aral Sea: The Aral Sea was a large salt-water lake, straddling the modern countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was fed …
Posts
- : 🌏 Antipodes of the World: When I was a kid, I was somewhat obsessed with this question of, “If you tunnelled straight down into the Earth …
- : 🌏 Micro post: An eight-year-old blog post (external link) on many points of internationalisation developers screw up, including …
- : 📅 Micro post: Here’s an interesting map of what’s considered the first day of the week in different …
- : 🌏 Micro post: After a bewildering iCloud calendar reminder, today I learned that Norfolk Island, a remote Australian territory, …
Links
- : 🌏 Link: “Why 50% of the World’s Population Lives in This Circle?” by Tomas Pueyo
- : 🌏 Link: “A moment of global darkness on December 6”
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.