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J’étais là-bas
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Comment situer dans l’espace et visualiser l’expérience personnelle des victimes de la Shoah ? En traitant les lieux et déplacements dans leur relations topologiques et en matérialisant graphiquement la dimension subjective et émotionnelle des évènements, il est possible de dessiner la géographie de cette mémoire particulière. Levi Westerveld Geographer, GRID-Arendal Anne Kelly Knowles Historical Geographer, University of Maine Je travaillais à la gare, tout d’un coup je vois le train arriver, (...)

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I was there
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How can one situate in space and visualize the personal experiences Holocaust’s victims? By apprehending the topological relations of places and displacements, and by graphically materializing the subjective and emotional dimension of lived experience, it is possible to draw the geography of these memories. Levi Westerveld Geographer, GRID-Arendal Anne Kelly Knowles Historical Geographer, University of Maine I was working on the railroad station, all of sudden I see the train coming and (...)

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New map honors indigenous place names in Canada - UMaine News - University of Maine

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New map honors indigenous place names in Canada
February 26, 2018

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine has published a new map, “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.” The map honors indigenous place names in Canada and the assertion of indigenous authority through place names.

Commissioned by Stephen Hornsby, director of UMaine’s Canadian-American Center, “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada” was researched and designed by cartographer Margaret Pearce.

The map depicts indigenous place names across Canada, shared by permission of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities and people.

#canada #première_nations #toponymie #mots #noms

New map honors indigenous place names in Canada - UMaine News - University of Maine

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New map honors indigenous place names in Canada
February 26, 2018

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine has published a new map, “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.” The map honors indigenous place names in Canada and the assertion of indigenous authority through place names.

Commissioned by Stephen Hornsby, director of UMaine’s Canadian-American Center, “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada” was researched and designed by cartographer Margaret Pearce.

The map depicts indigenous place names across Canada, shared by permission of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities and people.

“One of the aims of the map,” Hornsby says, “is to represent Canada in a new way by highlighting the importance of indigenous names for understanding places and landscape features.”

#canada #premières_nations #peuples_autochtones #cartographie #toponymie

Geography Isn’t Sacred in the Playful World of Pictorial Maps | History | National Geographic Australia - National Geographic

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The maps in the slideshow above represent an underappreciated form of American visual art: the pictorial map. They’re maps designed to draw you in and—as often as not—try to sell you something, whether it’s a tropical vacation, a brand of bourbon, or a version of the American dream.

Pictorial maps thrived in the United States from the 1920s to the ’60s, says Stephen Hornsby, a professor of geography at the University of Maine and author of a new book, Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps. “They’re a manifestation of the enormous vibrancy of American popular culture,” Hornsby says.

#cartographie #pictogramme #isotype #sémiologie #symboles

How “Useless” Science Unraveled an Amphibian Apocalypse - Facts So Romantic
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One spring day in 1984, Joyce Longcore got a phone call from Joan Brooks, a biologist at the University of Maine. Brooks had received a National Science Foundation grant to study the interactions of fungi and bacteria in peat bogs. She needed a hand, and she heard through the grapevine that Longcore knew a bit about fungi. Longcore did. She’d studied them at the University of Michigan in the late 1960s before leaving lab life to raise a family full time. Now her oldest son was headed to college and she was looking for something to do. She’d figured on getting a job at the grocery store. Instead she took Brooks up on the offer. When their work ended after several years—it would later inspire a commercial peat-based sewage filtration system—Longcore decided to get her doctorate. The focus (...)

Awesome! Rare Blue Lobster Found in Massachusetts : News : Nature World News
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A man from Massachusetts caught a blue lobster — yes, blue, like the sky. But what makes it more interesting is that this same lucky man from Massachusetts had caught another blue lobster a few years ago. This rare blue sapphire lobster is more than just a possible delectable food in the table.

Fox News reports that blue lobsters are so rare that they approximately occur just one in two million. Its blue color is caused by a genetic defect which creates high quantities of protein, according to the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine.
Blue lobsters, despite being rare, are more common than lobsters that are in bright red (before being cooked), yellow or even calico. This particular blue lobster weighs two pounds and even though it stood out due to its size and color, it wasn’t eaten by a larger animal, Yahoo reports.

Humans May Surpass Other Natural Forces As Earth Movers — ScienceDaily

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Think of large earth moving projects: highway interchanges, coal mines or Boston’s Big Dig. According to Roger LeBaron Hooke, a University of Maine scientist, such activities have propelled humans into becoming arguably the most potent force in shaping the planet, surpassing rivers, wind and other natural phenomena.

Think of large earth moving projects: highway interchanges, coal mines or Boston’s Big Dig. According to Roger LeBaron Hooke, a University of Maine scientist, such activities have propelled humans into becoming arguably the most potent force in shaping the planet, surpassing rivers, wind and other natural phenomena. He finds this achievement troubling, and other scientists are taking note.

Hooke taught at the University of Minnesota until1999 and is now a UMaine research professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute. He studies glaciated landscapes and has worked in Maine, the Canadian Arctic and Sweden on the forces that molded ice sculpted hills, built gravel ridges and left large landforms such as Cape Cod and Long Island.

#climat #anthropocène #l_homme_contre_la_nature et vice versa