In its introduction to POI Pulse, Geography’s Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Observatory, run by Krzysztof Janowicz, explains that “POI (Point of Interest) Pulse is an interactive application that shows the pulse of user behavior in the Greater Los Angeles area. Visualized through the interaction with approximately 170,000 points of interest (e.g., Bars, Hospitals, Parks) and 12 million tiles, the map displays both typical...
Read MoreThe following article is by Joseph Stromberg, a science writer for smithsonianmag.com, posted February 26, 2014, with the title above: Sometime between six and nine million years ago, in a stretch of the Pacific Ocean just off of South America, something kept killing whales. Lots of them. At least thirty baleen whales died, their bodies washed onto a tidal mudflat and buried over time. Species of sperm whale and a walrus-like whale,...
Read More“Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is the single largest conservation area under the U.S. flag, and one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world. It encompasses 139,797 square miles of the Pacific Ocean (362,073 square kilometers) – an area larger than all the country’s national parks combined. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument was established by Presidential...
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