https://www.tandymcconnell.com/current-events daily 0.75 2023-08-07 https://www.tandymcconnell.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/573a04372fe131630fd25157/1469729752911-UFETSG39XPIFRSHOM0XH/hero_pattern.png Introduction to https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591203217144-9MXTWY10Z02VJPEEGKBU/https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F9%2F97%2FThe_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg Introduction to The Earth Seen from Apollo 17, December 7, 1972. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591204173329-5Q2JQUIR7MIBXKI7GQTJ/Earth_tilt_animation.gif Introduction to The earth rotating on its axis. Wikipedia Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591215089120-U4PISM2I2HLEO5SP5WA5/SouthPoleStationDestinationAlpha.jpg Introduction to The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. 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Often, the map tells us more about the map-maker than it does about the earth and the people living on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/90819530-9a59-4fc7-832a-51099f03c088/Screenshot+2023-06-04+at+9.25.01+PM.png Cartography - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591373727503-RZOVLXY8SUCFHRHKSIO8/Catawba+deerskin+map.jpg Cartography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591394674734-1BNHF71A5BT1AU65N9U6/image-asset.png Cartography The London Underground Map (or Tube Map) shows the many stops and connections on the city’s underground transit system while completely ignoring scale. If you are riding a subway, after all, you only need to know that, in three stops you will need to get off your Piccadilly train and get on Circle Line to get to where you want to go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591394969853-F2E90RXKKBKTV4EE7J8D/Map_scale_-_8km%2C_5mi.png Cartography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591448724008-7AWL0069DGM71C6HGD85/BlueMarble-2001-2002.jpg Cartography By Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds)Robert Simmon (enhancements: ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation)Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data. 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The graph suggests that the global population was fairly stable—at a few hundred million people—from the high middle ages until the beginning of the Early Modern Era in the 1500s, when birth rates began to gradually outstrip death rates. By the end of the nineteenth century, this trend was no longer gradual. If we were to continue this graph into the future—2040 or so—we would probably find that population growth will have slowed or stopped, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/c9eb1e84-3f61-4357-96c3-c7858932f5bd/1920px-Logistic-curve.svg.png Population - Make it stand out Qef, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/b3f6e2ce-c2f5-408b-9069-41dabe129f20/world+population+pyramid.png Population © December 2022 by PopulationPyramid.net, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591458801865-KOU1TQ3CDDOOECWDPIUH/Romania+population+pyramid.png Population https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591461326007-XDDDFUCRIYWW7PLP3F7Q/US+Population+Pyramid.png Population https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591461632046-9EONE8H14AOBRXCKRZ14/Nigeria+population+pyramid.png Population https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591720168549-TBJZQDJU9MUSFL4PMVWM/china+population+pyramid.png Population https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591793875484-41YG76MHMBR119S1CXTA/World_population.png Population Population by countries. Note that this map indicates the countries with the largest populations in darker colors. By Roke, updated by Emilfaro - Based on the GeoHive estimates, obtained on the March 3, 2009., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=662992 https://www.tandymcconnell.com/overpopulation daily 0.75 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591798579108-3NGS90DFL67A8NZS8LVZ/Tertullian.jpg Overpopulation - Tertullian, (155-230 CE) What most frequently meets our view (and occasions complaint), is our teeming population: our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly supply us from its natural elements; our wants grow more and more keen, and our complaints more bitter in all mouths, whilst Nature fails in affording us her usual sustenance. In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race. (De Anima, Chapter 30) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1626280293172-UZPI3EO21T4RPX3UU4HC/Thomas_Robert_Malthus_Wellcome_L0069037_-crop.jpg Overpopulation - Make it stand out Thomas Malthus, Fellow of the Royal Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591801256845-S7SHDUCIPBD833H8FG2N/Annual-World-Population-since-10-thousand-BCE-for-OWID.png Overpopulation https://www.tandymcconnell.com/transition daily 0.75 2023-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591884506333-1UCHHHDXHPHLKIQFYA97/John_Singer_Sargent_001.jpg Demographic Transition John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591897338854-DV3VFRWCT0ZFCZ3J7KR8/Plow_medieval.jpg Demographic Transition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591884207836-BFI2GU1P1ZS71B418D0X/Mortality-rates-of-children-over-last-two-millennia.png Demographic Transition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1591901536835-ODBNM842KPFTWVKOPU2H/Naturalincrease1.png Demographic Transition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1597431054513-YIJN05APFFYDJNZAWOBE/Demographic-TransitionOWID.png Demographic Transition https://www.tandymcconnell.com/migration daily 0.75 2023-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1594767747426-D0JP3O73TXFG4KFUCIWX/PassportmessageUSA.jpg Migration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1594767439289-VDTCISGQEEK2HTE9J550/border%2Bprotection%2Bbeagle.jpg Migration Image by US Department of Immigration and Border Protection. https://www.tandymcconnell.com/economic-development daily 0.75 2023-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/1593005986494-X7W8QBXPXXQDQVQ48T1R/Marina_Bay%2C_Financial_District_and_Singapore_River_%2835622190292%29.jpg Economic Development Marina Bay, Financial District of Singapore. 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The Three Gorges Dam. 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An autonomous polity within the nation of Greece, Mount Athos is governed by the 2000 Orthodox monks who live there. Visitors are welcomed, but only if they are males. Women are strictly forbidden. It is, in effect, an independent nation within Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/a2b557f7-8d8f-484b-b584-ab907d71debe/Coronation_Chair_with_Stone_of_Scone%2C_Westminster_Abbey_%283611549960%29.jpg Nations, Countries, and Nationalities - Make it stand out This late 19th century image shows the Stone of Scone as part of the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abby, London. 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Terrace farming in Vietnam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/ded21ab1-3717-4940-a544-5634f8a8abcd/deer+hunt.jpeg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Department of Visual Studies, University of Buffalo. Sixth Century BCE, Deer Hunt from Catal Hoyuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/792acb28-1b34-4317-a234-b3a26c46f049/Demographic-TransitionOWID.png <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/ba278036-459b-407c-9cb0-a1fe747e0c98/Hippomane_mancinella_%28fruit%29.jpg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Death Apple (Hippomane mancinella). When Columbus landed in the Virgin Islands, his sailors were delighted to find a “beach apple” tree with sweet, juicy fruit. So they ate it. And died. The Manchineel (endangered in Florida but common throughout the Caribbean and Central America) is among the most toxic plants in the Americas. Unwary sailors (and the occasional modern tourist), have discovered that every part of the tree has the ability to make one painfully sick and, in extreme cases, dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/95dc385a-9ae8-4091-88e6-b2dae3b3694f/Corn_parents1.jpg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Teosinte, growing in Oaxaca, Mexico. 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Average wheat production in 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/6edef759-c08e-469a-84be-3fd51adc8390/average-regional-output-rice.png <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/5fbbe43c-42ba-4afe-80d5-9f09cf935639/Subsistence_Farmers_Trying_To_Sell_Their_Produce.jpg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/fc6351b2-004e-4356-9a82-621faf304543/Jhum_fire.jpg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Jhum Field being prepared for planting in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Rohit Naniwadekar (2008) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/ba461ee3-f80e-40ec-b5e2-01633ae81e70/Poomparai_village.jpg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out Poomparai Village, India provides an extreme example of a clustered or nucleated settlement. Residents live in very close proximity to one another and make a clear boundary between the town and the farmland. Parthan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/9cc1256f-19b7-4abc-9899-53c18fd664e4/Champlain%28Quebec%29.jpeg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out This community along Lake Champlain in Quebec reflects a linear settlement pattern. 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A “section” is one square mile or 640 acres. A “township” is made up of 36 sections. The circles (and semicircles) show where center pivot irrigation is being used. The dark green circles are corn. Lighter green is millet. Brown fields were probably growing winter wheat which has recently been harvested. Crops_Kansas image by NASA Earth Observatory. . Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d2e8846f12664000111aef0/b9c28f41-b49d-4291-a722-e9b8a1a2541a/Detroit1796.jpg <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Agriculture</p> - Make it stand out By George Henry Victor Collot. This is a section of an early 19th century map made under the direction of George Henry Victor Collot. Public Domain. Surprisingly, Fort Detroit, like the modern city, is on the northern banks of the Detroit River. 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