As a geography educator who loves trivia and finding ways to make spatial thinking entertaining, games like Geoguessr and Timeguessr are right in my wheelhouse. These videos replicate the competitive experience using spatial information, using aerial photography zoo...

This isn’t JUST about carrots and carrot production. We see a similar amount of intensive, mechanistic inputs needed for large-scale production, whether it is in the corn fields of the Midwest, or the oranges groves of Florida. Too often we fail to rec...

Chokepoints are to the global economy as referees are to a sporting event…when things are running smoothly you don’t notice a thing, but when they are the topic of conversation, you know there are some problems. In 2026, chokepoints became a far more relevant geographic constraint on global trade than we’d prefer, because the Persian Gulf is at the center of discussion for ge...

I’m deeply fascinated by the Sahara, but since most of my focus in academic geography is on human geography and the settled portions of the planet, this often goes unaddressed even though it explains much about the world we live in. The main landforms of the desert are dunes (ergs), desert pavement (regs), and mountains that rise above the windswept features of ergs and regs....

A geographic concept that becomes incredibly important to understanding during war or any armed conflict is the concept of scale. The same issue looks quite different when you see the issue primarily through a local lens, national lens, re...