I came across the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database while reading Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s opinion piece on slave reparations in the New York Times.
It has great statistics, charts, maps, and more. This is a wonderful resource for anyone teaching about the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
They've got veggie dogs and veggie burgers! That's sweet.
There are beautiful projections scrolling all across the main area of Grand Central to celebrate Earth Day. Worth checking out.
Wow, cool video on the real time web and Twitter. Saw this on the 140 Characters Conference live stream.
I mean, seriously, this is awesome. It's actually scary how many times I've seen people cutting nails on the subway. Almost as creepy as people having full meals on the subway.
Spotted this on Dan Pink's blog but he found it originally on the Critical Difference blog.
Wow, Dan Meyer was right, he certainly hit the nerd frequency. Dan's talk at TEDxNYED has over 30,000 views and the closest behind him is Jeff Jarvis with over 1,100 views. I'm sure plenty more views are going to pile on to all of our speakers, but fascinating to watch how the numbers are moving right now.
Posterous (a free blog++ service that I love) announced yesterday that they were working to allow Ning users to import their blogs to Posterous. Look how many people have read this post! 13,000. Amazing.
I am absolutely stunned by these images of insects. View the entire gallery on the Daily Mail site.
On a side note, one of my favorite Flickr insect photographers is Lord V. He is also well worth checking out.
Either of these resources would be perfect for working with students studying insects. Perhaps you could even invite the photographers into your classrooms virtually.
via @edwebb on Twitter.
a beautifully captured project called Touching Strangers where Richard Renaldi has strangers pose for a picture with one stipulation, they must be physically touching each other in some way. I love this idea and the execution of the project.
Via the Photojojo newsletter. If you take pictures, you should sign up for their stuff.
Evernote, a wonderful note-taking anywhere application that I use is hosting an event tonight in New York City. There's a great looking panel and free food and drink! You need to RSVP, so go for it!