Spent part of the day today at the cafe in the Victoria & Albert museum in South Kensington, having a productive meeting (and a bakewell slice) with the Head of Education from the BGCI.
For those who don't know about the cafe, it's in a wonderful room shown above. The glass globe chandeliers are incredible, and the food's nice too !
Thanks to Flickr user Robert UK for the nice image.
And for those who aren't sure what the BGCI is, it's BOTANIC GARDENS CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL.
We were discussing the role of plants in the issues of food security and climate change, and the discussion encompassed pretty much the whole scope of geography by the time we had finished.
Several BGCI reports were mentioned which might be of use to other geographers. There's a very useful report on MEDICINAL PLANTS
Click the link to go to the DOWNLOAD PAGE.
The V&A currently have an exhibition of design from the COLD WAR, and had some good stuff in the shop. I picked up some Cold War badges, and also a replica of Civil Defence Handbook No. 10: takes me back to watching 'Threads' years ago...
Thanks to Paul Sturtivant for the following tip off from SLN.
Try the SHOW / WORLD site. This contains a range of map animations where countries are animated according to particular
Here's an embedded map on WORLD POPULATION - as you can see, they are animated topological maps in the style of WORLDMAPPER.
For those who don't know about the cafe, it's in a wonderful room shown above. The glass globe chandeliers are incredible, and the food's nice too !Thanks to Flickr user Robert UK for the nice image.
And for those who aren't sure what the BGCI is, it's BOTANIC GARDENS CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL.
We were discussing the role of plants in the issues of food security and climate change, and the discussion encompassed pretty much the whole scope of geography by the time we had finished.Several BGCI reports were mentioned which might be of use to other geographers. There's a very useful report on MEDICINAL PLANTS
Click the link to go to the DOWNLOAD PAGE.
The V&A currently have an exhibition of design from the COLD WAR, and had some good stuff in the shop. I picked up some Cold War badges, and also a replica of Civil Defence Handbook No. 10: takes me back to watching 'Threads' years ago...
Thanks to Paul Sturtivant for the following tip off from SLN.
Try the SHOW / WORLD site. This contains a range of map animations where countries are animated according to particular
Here's an embedded map on WORLD POPULATION - as you can see, they are animated topological maps in the style of WORLDMAPPER.
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