Thursday, November 15, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
How would you feel in a plane crash?
Curiosity 'Plane Crash,' airing Oct. 7 on Discovery Channel
By April MacIntyre Sep 26, 2012, 19:11 GMT
Local Memphis Pilot involved in the show
Monday, September 24, 2012
Ocean currents
Ensconced in a plain glass bottle, the scrap of paper drifted in the North Sea for 98 years. But when a Scottish skipper pulled it from his nets near the Shetland Islands (map) last April, he didn't find a lovelorn note or marooned sailor's SOS.
"Please state where and when this card was found, and then put it in the nearest Post Office," read the message. "You will be informed in reply where and when it was set adrift. Our object is to find out the direction of the deep currents of the North Sea."
Sorry, romantics.
The message in a bottle found by Andrew Leaper—certified by Guinness World Records on August 30 as the oldest ever recovered—belonged to a century-old science experiment. To study local ocean currents, Capt. C. Hunter Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation set bottle number 646B adrift, along with 1,889 others, on June 10, 1914.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Yangtze River Turns Red and Turns Up a Mystery
Yangtze River Turns Red and Turns Up a Mystery: For a river known as the “golden watercourse,” red is a strange color to see. Yet that’s the shade turning up in the Yangtze River and officials have no idea why. The red began appearing in the Yangtze, the longest and largest river in China...
Friday, August 31, 2012
Should we revive the Wooly Mammoth?
Sorry it has taken me so long to post! Between putting names in Teacher Ease, Study Island, grading papers, and other things , I have been swamped! I do care about your thoughts and opinions. I believe a young mind is the best mind! I know everyone likes the movie Ice Age. Do we really want to bring those animals back? Just saw a show about a frozen zoo! We have DNA of many extinct animals in containers. The scientists say that if we keep going at the rate we are that humans will be the only animals left! Would you like to see the Woooly Mammoth brought back? Read the article below and let me know what you think about it. Happy posting!
Wooly Mammoth Returns!
Wooly Mammoth Returns!
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Above and Beyond
These words have many meanings to me as it relates to geography. I always try to go above and beyond of what I am expected to do. Anything worth doing, is worth doing right! Let's go above and beyond this school year. I am looking forward to spending a new school year with students that are thirsty for new knowledge and deeper understanding of geographic issues. I hope that you enjoy our adventure that we are going to embark on this year to become some of the world's greatest explorers. We will get into thought provoking topics and try to develop solutions to some of the toughest problems we are faced with today-
population explosion- world hunger- available farm land- natural disasters- food supply- trading- world economies- earthquakes-recycling- immigration, and many more! You are the future!
population explosion- world hunger- available farm land- natural disasters- food supply- trading- world economies- earthquakes-recycling- immigration, and many more! You are the future!
Murphy's World Explorers
Right here. Right now. Those are powerful words that describe how I feel about geography. Geography is alive and changing as we speak. Please view the short video clip with that title to the right of this message. This subject is more important now than it has been in the past. Understanding geography now, will lead to a better tomorrow. Please join me on this adventure to learn about this amazing world we live in!
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