This Map Shows the Hourly Wage You Need to Afford an Apartment in Your State A new report shows that skyrocketing rent prices have put basic living arrangements out of reach in nearly every state for most low-income workers. In order to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment in the U.S., workers on average need to earn at least $20.30 an hour, according to 2016 data from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). That’s roughly $13 more per hour than the federal minimum wage, and roughly $5 per hour more than the average national $15.42 hourly wage earned by renters last year. Even a one-bedroom apartment is out of reach for minimum wage earners today at Fair Market Rent (FMR) levels. FMR is the metric that the Department of Housing and Urban Development uses to determine standard payments for housing choice vouchers, rent ceilings for the HOME rental assistance program, and rents at Section 8 housing developments when contracts are up for renewal. Fair market rent varies by state.
Peaks Peaks is a visualization that explores the origin of mountain names in Switzerland. Visitors can explore the map and interact with the data through the filters on the right. At the bottom, there are three guided narratives. The piece is best experienced in a modern desktop browser (screenshot). Exploring the data and finding the story The underlying data is an amazing set of numerous georeferenced names of built infrastructure and topographical features in Switzerland. During this data exploration phase, I came across countless interesting threads of stories that could potentially be told, and eventually settled on the rich intersection of mountains and languages. Visual representation and rapid iteration To get first basic visual representations, I rendered the data with p5.js, the emerging web version of the Processing programming language. Turning interesting into insightful The first narrative explores the impact language has on naming (e.g. Polish, polish, polish Beyond Peaks
An Incredibly Detailed Map of the Roman Empire At Its Height in 211AD Map created by Sardis Verlag The map above is one of the most detailed and interesting maps of the Roman Empire you’ll likely find online. It shows what the Empire looked like in 211 CE (aka 211 AD) at the end of the reign of Septimius Severus. There lots of really cool things to point out about the map itself. You can see the Hadrian’s Wall and the less famous but more northern Antonine Wall. Oh and you can buy a copy here. Why 211 CE? Here are a few close-ups of sections of the maps: The area around Rome (Roma) in Italy. Notice the Roman city of Byzantium. Map of the Caucasus. Britain and Ireland (Britannia & Hibernia) in 211 CE. To learn more about the Roman Empire have a look at: Enjoy these maps?
What's language doing here? | What we need to know to move pupils from everyday to academic language Antipodes Map - Tunnel to the other side of the world Maps Mania La Méditerranée antique : les empreintes romaines. Un article récent proposait deux cartographies pour aborder la période grecque de la Méditerranée antique. Nous nous attachons ici au deuxième moment du premier chapitre du programme d’histoire en seconde : les empreintes romaines. La cartographie proposée cible sur le règne d’Auguste (Point de passage et d’ouverture du programme) jusqu’à la fin du règne de Trajan. Les délimitations frontalières sont établies à partir de l’Atlas historique de G. Duby. Biographie de l’empereur Auguste à partir d’une vidéo de France TV Éducation. Un travail possible sur la romanisation et les héritages culturels à partir du site du Centre du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO : les exemples de Nîmes et de Leptis Magna. L’empire romain d’Auguste à Trajan La carte en PDF interactif : En parallèle de l’hyperlien sur Nîmes, retrouvez les traces de la romanité à travers une recherche des constructions signalées dans l’article : Pour aller plus loin : L’Empire romain sous Auguste Les congrégations chrétiennes en 325.
Chronology Of Prehistory The 2014 NC includes prehistory, a period which may not be familiar to teachers. One of the challenges will be to help children gain a sense of the chronology of the prehistoric period and where this fits in to the broader chronology of Romans, Tudors, Victorians etc. These notes provide an outline framework for introducing the chronology of prehistory which we hope history co-ordinators will read and think about in the context of their own schools and then adapt and build on them accordingly. Please remember that what follows gives outline ideas only – it’s impossible to provide a more detailed breakdown because classes and schools differ so much. Download Download these outline ideas [ click here ] 1. Creating timelines in their own right can be a dry and unmotivating activity. So begin by getting children interested in the finds or place – probably quite briefly - then use this as the way in to exploring where the find/place fits in time. 2. 3. 4. 5. Battersea shield – Iron Age here …
One Interactive Map Reveals the Wi-Fi Passwords From Airports Around the World Frequent travelers understand the headache of finding decent Wi-Fi in most airports. Slow lines or service that is limited to 30 minutes can make killing time on a layover a nightmare. Travel blogger and computer security engineer Anil Polat has solved the problem with this online map of crowdsourced Wi-Fi passwords in airports around the world. The current count is at 132 airports, with the map being updated continuously. If you can't access internet in order to pull up the interactive map, Polat also developed paid apps for Android and iOS that work offline. Cytoscape: An Open Source Platform for Complex Network Analysis and Visualization l'impero romano, altrove quanto era grande l'impero romano? beh, abbastanza... prendiamo l'apice dell'estensione territoriale dell'impero, sotto l'imperatore Traiano nel 117 d.C. una mappa ben conosciuta, direi. beh, adesso spostiamo l'impero in altri continenti e vediamo i risultati... SUD AMERICA! AFRICA! AMERICA DEL NORD! dall'Iran a Taiwan! OCEANIA!
» Rainbow Theatre for Schools Rainbow Theatre South has been working continually now for over thirty years, building up a unique relationship with schools and adult audiences. Rainbow’s original company, under the direction of the Company’s Artistic Director, Nick Young, combines enormous theatre experience and expertise, with enthusiastic, talented young professional actors, currently tours schools in East and West Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent. Performance Shows * Show can be performed to whole school(A) Audience Show (W) Workshop (E) Rainbow Experience Show (S) Southern Area Only (L) London Area Only Autumn 2017 4 Fairy Tales (A) KS1Saxon Invasion (A) KS2Moses & the Egyptians (A) KS 1& 2Cinderella (S) * (A) KS 1&2Snow White (L) * (A) KS 1&2Child in Ancient Greece (W) KS 1&2Child in Roman Britain (W) KS 1&2Vikings! Introduction to Shakespeare (W) KS 2 Spring 2018 Introduction to Shakespeare (W) KS 1&2 Summer 2018
Ingeniously Redesigned World Map Looks Unusual, But Is Highly Accurate We've been conditioned to look at the world in one, highly distorted, manner due to the prevalence of the Mercator projection. Gerardus Mercator's vision of the world was revealed in 1569 and has become the widely accepted version of the planet, yet it contains enormous flaws. For one, both Antarctica and Greenland are represented as much larger landmasses than what is accurate, while Alaska is shown to be as big as Brazil, even though Brazil is nearly five times its size. One clever Japanese designer, Hajime Narukawa, has spent years studying an innovative solution for a new world map. To resolve the flaws, he has created the AuthaGraph map, a perfectly proportioned rendering of our planet that functions both as a bi-dimensional map and three-dimensional globe. You can make your own piece of geographical origami by printing out the AuthaGraph and folding it into different shapes, all of which show a proportional representation of land and sea. AuthaGraph: Website via [Spoon & Tamago]
Inside the Secret World of Russia's Cold War Mapmakers It’s easy now, in an age when anybody can whip out a smartphone and call up a street map or high-res satellite image of any point on Earth with a few taps, to forget how hard it once was to come by geospatial knowledge. In post-war Russia, men died in the pursuit of better maps. After World War II, Stalin ordered a complete survey of the Soviet Union. Though aerial photography had reduced the need for fieldwork by then, it didn’t eliminate it entirely, according to the 2002 paper by Alexey Postnikov, the Russian cartographer. The program involved tens of thousands of surveyors and topographers, and hundreds of cartographers. A surveyor himself, Postnikov writes that on a survey expedition to remote southern Yakutiya in the 1960s he found a grim note scrawled on a tree trunk by one of his predecessors. How many maps did the military cartographers make? For San Diego, the Russians included sites of military interest, but also notes on transit, communications, and the height of buildings.