Hans Rosling on Ebola

Ian Stewart's Earthquake Summary video...

Anatomy of an earthquake - Professor Iain Stewart from NERC on Vimeo.
NERC has teamed up with BBC presenter Professor Iain Stewart and Shadow Industries, a Bristol-based production company, to create a new short film called 'Anatomy of an Earthquake'.

The film uses graphics to provide an introduction to the physical causes of earthquakes, and what happens when a seismic hazard deep beneath the Earth's surface meets a vulnerable city above. As people around the world flock towards ever-growing urban centres, it also asks how we can prepare our mega-cities for the looming threat of a direct seismic strike,

The film was created with the GCSE and A' Level curricula in mind, and is intended as a new resource to introduce students to the topic.

It was created in partnership with NERC's British Geological Survey and Earthquakes without Frontiers, a programme jointly funded by NERC and the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) to improve understanding of the physical and social factors that cause vulnerability to earthquakes on continental interiors.

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Entomophagy...

Could you do it?
Have you eaten insects?

Could this be a solution to our food supply and food security problems?

Person killed by meteorite...

After discussions that we had with Year 9 regarding the risk of being hit by a meteorite this story is sad, and (almost) unbelievable. Remember Professor Spiegelhalter's calculations of micromorts for different events. It will be interesting to see how the story develops as the cause is unconfirmed at the moment, and may end up not being a meteorite at all... which is another reminder of the importance of fact-checking when using web sources.

Meteorite 'kills one and injures three others on college campus' https://t.co/ozzIhzVn6f pic.twitter.com/IYYhZ5m6eY

— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) February 8, 2016

Snowdonia - March 2016

Preparing for the Year 12 fieldtrip to Snowdonia, which will involve us in travelling up to the Field Studies Council centre at Rhyd-y-Creuau

A page with field trip information is being put together on Firefly and you can see it here

Everything we touch

Year 8 are about to start a new unit on the geography of our stuff….

Earlier yesterday, I was down in London, and bought this book. It's the print version of a photography project which uses Tumblr to document everything that people touch during the whole day.

What do you touch in the average day ?

We'll be considering the 'stuff' that you can't live without, and which define you...

Name the geographical issue….

Northern Sea Route

We were exploring this route as part of our work on the Polar regions. This includes:
a) the details on the route, including the map - use Google Earth Pro to explore this.
b) information on the benefits of the Northern Sea Route to local communities
c) problems that might be caused by an increase in ship movements through the cold Arctic Ocean, with floating sea ice, and vulnerable ecosystems…
d) also use the AIS ship tracker to explore current shipping movements.

Here are some trawler movements in the Barents Sea for example, perhaps catching the cod which I shall be eating later today…

Taiwan Earthquake

So Year 9 were just doing their presentations on earthquakes on Friday, and a few hours later I'm browsing my Twitter feed and some images start appearing from Taiwan of buildings leaning over, and others apparently collapsed.

Challenge for Year 9 would be to find out a little more about this particular earthquake, and to come and find me to let me know what they've discovered… there are alphas potentially available for those that do...

Listen to the head of ONS talking about the latest health statistics release....

Interested to hear that the average weight of a man is 13 stone 3 pounds.... Also stats on HLE (Healthy Life Expectancy) Exercise advice etc. Read all the health information from ONS here.

Ebola - Sierra Leone celebrates being disease free back in November 2015

The Story of Ebola

Voiceover could be replaced by another in different language to allow the animation to be used in different countries.

Fairtrade Fortnight

This year's VIMEO video… on the subject of COTTON…

FAIRTRADE COTTON_GRADED_English_LOW from Fairtrade Schools on Vimeo.

Hue HD Visualiser

A new arrival in OH1 is the HUE HD visualiser / animation camera, which we are going to be trialling. I got it working on my MacBook earlier using Photobooth, but there is also a dedicated piece of software which we will be exploring, which is able to produce stop-motion animations.