Apps We Love: NASA Space Weather Viewer
The NASA Space Weather Media Viewer features near-real-time imagery from a wide variety of NASA missions, as well as video interviews with prominent scientists about the causes of space phenomena and NASA-created visualizations. The Space Weather Media Viewer was...March 2012 Hottest on Record
According to NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center, record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to...Interactive Online Historical Atlas
Visit this phenomenal interactive historic atlas that allows you to browse geographic borders through time with little tidbits sprinkled throughout like a panaramio. Each hot link shows you pieces from museums or gives you cool facts or trivia from the region.Rediscover African Geographies
From one of the earliest depictions of the continent to the colonial scramble for land, these maps reveal a great deal about the people who have lived there through the centuries. To try to shed new light on the African archives held by the Royal Geographical Society,...