Tag: local

How to dress like a local in Germany

People of Germany love to dress in formal and stylish clothes. If you want to visit places in Germany, do business and have food outdoors you should dress up in casual or business orientated clothes. Germans like to wear dark color clothes which are popular among them. Younger people likes t...

Our Birth in the Local Bubble

The latest Webb telescope images of 19 face-on spiral galaxies are stunning. They show dust lanes with dark holes or bubbles and lots of stars sprinkled all over. If we were to look at the Milky-Way disk from above, it would likely appear the same. The evidence that we live in a punctur...

8 Reasons to Use Rockd

Prior to Rockd, answering the question “What kind of rock am I standing on?” was a complicated process that might have involved searching for USGS or local survey maps, downloading PDFs, and attempting to reconcile your location on them. Using Macrostrat’s geologic map databas...

Our Birth in the Local Bubble

The latest Webb telescope images of 19 face-on spiral galaxies are stunning. They show dust lanes with dark holes or bubbles and lots of stars sprinkled all over. If we were to look at the Milky-Way disk from above, it would likely appear the same. The evidence that we live in a punctur...

The Importance of Local Nuance

Social media has done a great job at gathering both support and criticism for certain ideas on a national or even international level. Although this is nice, to an extent, a lot of people seem to use this as an alternative to learning about and understanding their community’s own issues. Lo...

How to Be an Ally to Your Local Redheads

We’ve come a long way in supporting marginalized groups. However, one subset of people has been tragically ignored, disadvantaged and persecuted over the years. I’m talking about us in the melanin-bereft redhead community. Many incidents that go unnoticed in the broader community are ...

Here???s a list of 80+ NYC local news outlets that need your support

The New York Times compiled membership lists from five press associations into a database, published on May 1, 2020 for World Press Freedom Day. The list was searchable by location, and the paper urged its national audience to support local media with subscriptions and donations. “Local jou...

How Local Communities Are Taking Back Their Rivers

Stretching over 10 miles from the leafy suburbs of Barnet to the inner-city sprawl of Edmonton, the Pymmes Brook flows though picturesque parks, past ancient woodland, behind council housing estates and under some of the city’s biggest motorway junctions. It traverses three London boroughs, sp...