Lectures Going Live...

Hi Class,

I have begun posting my lectures in PDF format. You can find them to the right. They may not all be working yet, as I am waiting for them to upload and I am going to go to bed and just presume that it worked. I won't know until the morning. Sorry for any inconvenience -- just by the off chance that some of you want to read these at 10:45 on a Thursday night.

I will see you tomorrow!

Best,

Ian

Readings for this week

Dear Class:

You do not need to read Chapters 13 & 14 from the Reader this week. Happy belated President's Day.

However, you must read Chapters 11, 12 & 16, as well as finish Chapters 3-5 in the "Why Geography Matters" book. You have until Monday to read these chapters.

Finally, though the online schedule says to read Chapters 18 & 20 from the Reader for next week, please hold off. You may get out of reading them. :) We will see.

Oh, a true finality... I will be posting my lecture slides to the blog at some point this week. Anything I did not cover in class -- slides I skipped -- is not valid for the midterm or final exam. So please note you only need to study what I covered in class. I will try to delete slides I did not cover in class, but I may miss one or two. If you don't remember it at all, it probably was not a slide in class and you do not need to read it.

Thanks, Geographers! We'll see you later today.

Best,

Ian

Julian Simon & CATO Promo Video

All I can say is that this is priceless! A propaganda video for propaganda!

Speak of the devil... talking about humans migrating around the world and where we come from, this just popped up on MSNBC.COM today. Check it out!

Best,

Ian

New Readings for the Weekend and Upcoming Week

I have posted some additional readings that are required (except for the one on the basics of geography, which is supplemental). Please read the Economist reading on Migration by Wednesday and the anti-overpopulation readings I posted, as well as the other readings on your syllabus assigned for Week 4, by Friday, February 22nd. Thanks. Have a great weekend!

Spying on Your Neighborhood's Lifestyle

Click here to spy on neighbors in your zipcode.

For Friday, please finish reading Chapters 5 & 6 in the Reader and read Chapter 2 of de Blij's "Why Geography Matters." Bring in an article -- current event or otherwise -- to discuss on Friday. Think about questions a geographer might ask about the place or people in the article and what techniques they might use to get information to answer their questions.

See you on Friday!

In Case You Don't Have Enough To Do...

Learn the countries of the world -- sans former Soviet Republics and Slovakia. :)

Hope you enjoyed the Super Bowl! See you all tomorrow.