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Nobel Prize winners change Geography
by Jenny Lunn The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics was announced this week. This year it is being shared by three scientists who have helped to transform communications technology. Charles Kao is honoured...
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Virtual Conference Report: Day Seven (27 Oct, 2009)
By Paula Bowles The seventh day of the conference has continued with the key themes of ‘breaking down boundaries’ and interdisciplinarity. Roy Baumeister (Florida State University) began the day with...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Content Alert: New Articles
These Early View articles are now available on Wiley Online Library. Sinification of Zhuang place names in Guangxi, China: a GIS-based spatial analysis approach Fahui Wang, Guanxiong Wang, John...
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Geographies of Occupation
Sarah Mills Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement against corporate greed and social and economic inequality which began in September 2011, continues to grow and inspire occupations across the world....
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Content Alert: Volume...
The latest issue of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers is available on Wiley Online Library. Click past the break to view the full table of contents. Boundary Crossings Security of...
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Affecting Our Physique: The Place of Obesity
by Jen Turner Research carried out with people living in Colorado, US, has found that Americans who lived well above sea level were less likely to be obese than those in low-lying areas. Reported in...
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Fox News ‘no-go zones’ and British Muslim negotiations of urban citizenship
By Ashley Crowson, King’s College London Over the past month, the geography of Europe’s Muslim population has been greatly exciting the pundits invited to talk on the conservative Fox News channel....
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A Real Game Changer: The Use of GPS Tracking Devices in English Football
Kate Whiston, University of Nottingham Is the use of GPS trackers in football a good thing?Photograph: Kate Whiston Last month the use of GPS tracking in football came under scrutiny, following a...
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The Rhythm of the Night: Nocturnal Geographies
Kate Whiston, University of Nottingham Source: Wikimedia Commons The clocks have gone forward, the nights are getting lighter, and, as ever, there’s geography to be found in it all! Shaw’s (2015) paper...
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Moving home? The social and spatial (re)configuration of student accommodation
Kate Whiston, University of Nottingham Source: Wikimedia Commons University campuses up and down the country are looking rather bare at the moment, but at the end of the month the students will descend...
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Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights –...
By Eloise Marais, UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between...
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