Academia = Rotten!

Says Sabine: Things are not looking good for the future of science publishing. Researchers are leveraging AI, paper mills are churning out more fake papers than ever, and people are constantly coming up with new strategies to abuse the peer review system. Let’s take a look at how the world of science publishing is struggling with the growing issue of science fraud.

I disagree...this video & her message sound like clear examples of cherry-picking & confirmation bias to me. Plus: physicists always know everything better than anyone else...

Carl Sagan (1995)

 “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…”

More @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

I Got a Drone!

Fun series from John Nelson!

1. I Got a Drone, part 1: Unboxing & Goals

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.