Lovejoy's Nuclear War (1975)

On George Washington's Birthday, 1974, Sam Lovejoy--a 27-year-old farmer--toppled a 500-foot weather tower in Montague, Massachusetts. The tower had been erected by the local utility as part of their attempt to build one of the largest nuclear power plants ever planned.

Leaving 349 feet of twisted wreckage behind, Lovejoy hitched a ride to the local police station, where he turned himself in along with a four-page statement decrying the dangers of nuclear power and accusing the government and utilities of "conspiracy and despotism."

Six months later, Lovejoy stood trial for "willful and malicious destruction of personal property," a five-year felony. He insisted on conducting his own case, and told the jury he had acted in self-defense. After a dramatic seven-day trial, Lovejoy went free.

More about this story here: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lovejoys-nuclear-plant-civil-disobedience/

Earth Transit - Major World Passenger Rails

Earth Transit - Major World Passenger Rails is awsome: just a giant map as JPG or PDF.

The McCheapest

Cool map (and spatial pattern): https://pantryandlarder.com/mccheapest. Even better: share the data set with us - that would be great for teaching!

Coldest day of the year across the United States

The Coldest day of the year across the United States shows a really interesting east-to-west pattern!

Ful-screen app here.

Octopus ==> Ice Sheet History ==> Climate

Very cool: Genetic insight on ice sheet history

Nothing fundamentally new, but a great new independent line of evidence that supports what Mercer already told us 50+ years ago: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during the last Interglacial (~129,000 to ~116,000 years ago) and sea levels rose by 5 m.

GPX to 3D Storymap

This is pretty fun: Creating a 3D Race Report with ArcGIS StoryMaps

Couple of comments:

• No sure why it is not possible to add a GPX file directly to ArcGIS Online - that used to work just fine with the 'classic' Map Viewer.
• Maybe there's a way to do it, but when I import a GPX file into ArcGIS Pro I get the thousands of indiviudal points, not a nice polyline. Sure, I can convert that, but that's another step.
• Seems like you really should edit the GPX points first to remove any weird ones - that's tedious.

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