Fair Point!

Maybe the explanation as to why young people are not engaged & instead escape into the fantasy worlds of video games, consumption, sports, and social media is just that easy?

Future Climate Projections & The Living Atlas

Good information here: New Authoritative Climate Projections for the United States. Here are the data sets directly:

• Original gridded data
• Data summarized by geograhy

Blender & Canva

Sounds like Blender & Canva are taking over the 3D & 2D graphic design world - interesting! I'm not surprised to see Blender here, but Canva used to be considered an amateur tool. Read more about it here. 

Two Different Story Maps

Here are two recent examples of story maps:

1. The Internet Infrastructure Map is maybe not a 'classic' story map as such, but does tell the story of the expansion of undersea cables & more that represents the infrastructure of the Internet.
2. Battles of the American Revolutionary War (by Esri) is a class Esri Story Map = a nice way to curate a lot of information across space & time. But...ultimately...not very compelling.

Google's AI Hurricane Predictor

Saw this over on Maps Mania: Google has launched a new interactive map, Weather Lab: Cyclones, which shows AI-generated tropical cyclone forecasts and allows you to compare how different AI forecast models perform in comparison to  traditional physics-based models.

Try it @ Google Weather Lab: Cyclones

Ai & Energy Use

This is a great multimedia story map interactive about AI & Energy Use from the MIT Technology Review: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The Retro Weather Channel

This is fun: display NWS data using the retro look of the Weather Channel back in the days: https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/