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Saturday, August 30th, 2008This week, I’ve been visiting some other Google Earth blogs to see what our fellow virtual trippers have been up to.
Hurricane Tracking
Last week, I wrote about how you can watch the weather in Google Earth. Well, how about watching a hurricane? Frank has written “Track Hurricane Gustav in Google Earth” on the Google Earth Blog [...]
Live Weather Reports in Google Earth
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Here’s a great feature of Google Earth I didn’t know about. Under “Layers” in the sidebar, there’s an option for Weather. Enabling that option covers the globe in clouds and little thermometers that show you what the weather is like right now!
Clouds stealthily avoid the Beijing Olympics
A rainy weekend in Japan
Sizzling temperatures in Saudi Arabia
The [...]
Dinosaur Spotting on the Island of Kauai
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Have you ever wondered where the movie Jurassic Park was filmed? Do you remember those mountains, tropical forests, open plains and sandy beaches? If it weren’t for a few disgruntled, man-eating dinosaurs, that island would be paradise on Earth, well, at least after Kiribati has gone.
I did a little searching on Google and paid a [...]
The Sinking Islands of Kiribati
Sunday, July 27th, 2008As an ESL teacher for ten years, I’ve gone through a lot of textbooks. Perhaps one of the most memorable articles I covered in an advanced level textbook was about the sinking islands of Kiribati.
Kiribati is a series of 32 atolls and one island in the tropical center of the Pacific Ocean. This picture shows [...]
Japan’s Love for Hawaii and Waikiki Beach
Monday, July 21st, 2008My wife has a piggy bank, and like most Japanese women, she’s saving for a trip to Hawaii. I don’t really know why Japanese people have such a fascination for Hawaii, especially when they’ve got their own tropical island to go to, i.e. Okinawa. However, I was reading recently that 40% of Japanese couples go [...]
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