Texas A&M GeoServices

 I forgot about the Texas A&M GeoServices, but they offer free and excellent geocoding / reverse geocoding services - a great alternative to Esri with their cumbersome credit-charging system.

Hurricanes

 Here are two great geo apps by Esri related to hurricane tracks:

• Hurricane Aware
• Hurricane and Cyclone App

Poop!

 Poop is always a good topic...more specifically: Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing

Glacier Collapse in Switzerland

 I'm not sure I would call this a glacier collapse, but the video is cool:

How to prepare your data for analysis and charting in Excel & Google Sheets

Good stuff: How to prepare your data for analysis and charting in Excel & Google Sheets. Too often I find that students have no sense of basic data formatting in a table and this is a nice and concise tutorial. And that's our problem: our students tend to be incapable of the basics and therefore we never get to the 'advanced' = the dumbing-down on higher education. Thanks K-12!

Add this: How to split and extract text from data columns in Excel & Google Sheets

Smart Cities & ArcGIS Urban

This sounds like a great course to add to any GIS curriculum: Geodesign for Smart Cities. This class covers all the current buzz-words and hot topics.

URCA

Nice post and figure by Laura Guertin on her GeoEd Trek blog: Revisiting the continua of undergraduate research. I remember reading the Beckman and Hensel (2009) paper several years ago when I was more engaged in URCA and I created this figure back then: