Ideas ‘Free Solo’ Celebrates Man vs. Nature—but Nature Lost Long Ago When will we stop heroizing men for risking the world along with their lives? Lucia Graves
Social Justice Intolerant Cultures Thrive Closer to the Equator New research finds that ethnocentrism and political oppression are more prevalent in the southern part of the Northern Hemisphere, and vice-versa. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Testing the Power of Geography to Determine One’s Fate Conventional wisdom and research both suggest opening up better-off communities to those who were born into bad luck.… Pacific Standard Staff
Economics Mapping Yesterday’s Economic Geography, Today The economy we measure isn't the economy we have. Jim Russell
Economics Sociolinguistics and the Geography of Innovation The decline of the Southern drawl maps the diffusion of knowledge production in the United States. Jim Russell
Economics Goldilocks and the Geography of Innovation A sweet spot in the Technology Readiness Level attracts private industry. Jim Russell
Economics The Geography of ‘Displacement’ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Jim Russell
Economics Using Geography to Define ‘Gentrification’ Focus more on people, less on place. Jim Russell
Economics The Geographic Scale of Globalization Isn’t Global Nations—and even cities—don't globalize. Globalization spreads block by block. Jim Russell