To fully understand the imapact of the Villahermosa flooding, there are two visual points of view worth sharing today:
The 705 km view, 438 miles above the earth, is provided courtesy of Aqua at the Goddard Space Center in the form of a satellite images of Tabasco taken on October 18, 2007 and November 3, 2007. (links to […]
Learning partners,
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This month, I’ve added posts about RSS and some left over notes from the presentation on finding images for presentations and using […]
Plus six is an idea.
It’s more common sense than insight, and more practical than inovative. It’s recognition that in global scale tragedies, like what we’re seeing in Villahermosa, while the immediate need is huge, there will continue to be a need in six months. Catholic Online leads with a story today that describes what we […]
In reviewing submission guidelines for some conferences, I am struck by some obvious advice: the title needs to be catchy. And who among us hasn’t at times written a poor title for what was probably a good presentation?
But even good advice is sometimes overlooked, or goes unheeded. That became clear to me […]
The lead from The Economist
THE scale of it all is difficult to imagine. At the flood’s height, over four-fifths of the state of Tabasco, in Mexico’s south-east, was under water, damaging the homes of nearly a million people. Villahermosa, the low-lying capital, was inundated after the Grijalva river burst its banks. Canoes hit the roofs […]
