Geography educator. Former Chief Reader for #APHG @APHumanGeog and am enjoying time in Rhode Island.
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Seth Dixon retweeted
Oklahoma City’s manhole covers feature a map with a small white dot showing exactly where you are.
This custom-cast Oklahoma City manhole cover doubles as a functional street map, featuring a small white dot that serves as a real-world “You Are Here” marker.
Designed by artist Susan Thomas in 1990 for a citywide contest celebrating local history and urban design, the detailed casting depicts downtown streets, landmarks, and references to Oklahoma’s 1889 Land Run. Each cover was customized to its location, with the white mark indicating exactly where the viewer is standing.
Seth Dixon retweeted
This is incorrect. Jason Arday was responded to as a symbol of a tribe against whom there is much animus but that tribe was not “black people.” It was Critical Social Justice (woke) activists. And enablement of the wrongdoing was directly tied to the views of that movement
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Why was Jason Arday's plagiarism a front-page story, and not Johann Hari's? Or Dr William O'Reilly's?
Because when white people do wrong, they're seen as individuals, and not stand-ins for their entire race.
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The Arday's case goes way beyond plagiarism. He lied on his bio, his credentials, he invented attacks on him, he sent police to shut down research into his own academic fraud. It ceased to be plagiarism case a long time ago. theguardian.com/education/ng-i…
Morocco has controlled Western Sahara for most of life, but now it has diplomatically ensured sovereignty over the territory. This article and video by @WarFrontsWeekly linked is a good recap for educators. wp.me/p2dv5Z-3aF
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There is no name the announcers love to say more than Lamine Yamal. They take such pleasure in pronouncing it.
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I wasn't expecting to make a cameo in The College Tour's episode on Rhode Island College, but I'll take it. I get a quick glimpse 23 seconds in and a brief teaching segment around 15:50. youtube.com/watch?v=DaZJROj3…
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I'm a sucker for videos that gamify satellite imagery recognition. geographyeducation.org/2026/…
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I do love a nice example of the mechanization of the industrial scale food production. Today's video...carrots! geographyeducation.org/2026/…
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It's been a while since updating my GeoEd site...but the changes in Iran compelled me to do so. Good to be back!! wp.me/p2dv5Z-37u
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My cougar side and Penn State side can both co-sign this message. A nittany lion is just a cougar deep down, right?
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I'm a Penn State and BYU grad...this saga coming during then end of semester is not the drama that I needed! But I do love the delicious irony of the same men who say they don't like soap operas and drama, feverishly following Lane Kiffin and other coaching hires.
Kalani Sitake Update – The CEO of Crumbl Cookies Has Entered The Ring To Save BYU From Losing Their Head Coach to Penn State s.barstool.link/c/article-35…
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Seth Dixon retweeted
Travelling in New England last week, I noticed something surprising: beyond the suburbs, most of the land is forest.
Per ChatGPT, this land was often cultivated by the Native Americans and the European settlers. Some 80% was cleared for farmland by the early 1800s.
However, the agricultural productivity of the Midwest is so vastly superior that most of the farming population abandoned the land in the later 1800s and 1900s, and it gradually reverted to forest.
Is this true? Astonishing if the bounds of human activity are actually contracting, there in the wealthiest place on earth.
I've been stewing on this quote. Many do well balancing, better than I. From what I've seen, my friends on the right fall are more susceptible to the 1st trap, and my friends on the left to the 2nd.
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I want the algorithm to give us more Sydney content.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone...that is.
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One race I never aspire to run in the Badwater 135. It makes marathon look like a local neighborhood 5k.
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We need the truth on this topic. Not left-wing ideology nor right-wing religious zealotry. Our children deserve it. We to find voices that are bold enough to say the truth; voices we trust to be honest in their investigations.
THE WPATH FILES
Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based.
But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.
American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH. It is considered the leading global authority on gender medicine.
And yet WPATH’s internal files, which include written discussions and a video, reveal that its members know they are creating victims and not getting “informed consent.”
Victims include a 10-year-old girl, a 13-year-old developmentally delayed adolescent, and individuals suffering from schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.
The injuries described in the WPATH Files include sterilization, loss of sexual function, liver tumors, and death.
WPATH members indicate repeatedly that they know that many children and their parents don’t understand the effects that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries will have on their bodies. And yet, they continue to perform and advocate for gender medicine.
The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults. It will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history.
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Sometimes you don't want to search out more context, but feel compelled to do so in spite of yourself.
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But what continent doesn't have any rivers?
That stumps people using this particular map projection.
Great geography trivia: Map shows the few countries on our planet that don't have any rivers. Source: buff.ly/3h19Xfw
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