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Brazil
Hatchet Attack Kills Four Children
An attack on a daycare center yesterday in the Brazilian city of Blumenau by a hatchet-wielding man killed four young children and injured five others. A 25-year-old man turned himself in to police, but the suspect remains unidentified and police report they still have nothing to share about a motive. Brazil has seen an increase in violence in recent years. In response to this latest attack, the Justice Ministry announced a reallocation of $30 million in the nation’s public security fund to enhance school safety. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was recently given a report on violence in schools, looking at, among other factors, how perpetrators are radicalized in online communities.
This map depicts the location of Blumenau, Brazil where an attack on a day care by a man wielding a hatchet killed 4 children on Wednesday. Click on the map to learn more.
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China-India
Border Disputes Escalate
The Indian government has rejected an attempt by the Chinese government to formally rename 11 locations along their contested border in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Sino-Indian border remains disputed along what is known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in India’s far north in Kashmir, and in India’s far eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China calls Southern Tibet. Both countries work to reinforce their claims by infrastructure development and military deployments. Despite having populations of less than 25,000 each, China has declared two areas along the Line of Actual Control as city-states, bringing them under regional administration. Troops from both countries engaged in fights in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh last year, and the situation continues to be characterized as “fragile and dangerous.”
This map depicts the two sides perspectives on where their borders lie on the other side of the Line of Actual Control. Click on the map to learn more.
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Australia
TikTok Ban Growing
Australia is the latest country to ban TikTok use on all government devices, joining the US, Canada, several countries in Europe, and more with similar bans, while India and Afghanistan have placed complete nationwide bans of the app. The ban stemmed from concerns that the Chinese government could use the technology company which owns TikTok, called ByteDance, to collect user data, posing potential risks to data privacy and cybersecurity. Although the CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, has repeatedly denied any allegations of the app sharing user data, some US lawmakers continue to advocate for a total ban due to growing worries over national security issues.
This map depicts which countries have imposed TikTok bans around the world. Click on the map to learn more.
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Maps are a powerful tool that have the capability to visualize current events in a geographic context, which, when done well, allows the viewer to understand what is happening without needing greater levels of information. In this week’s Cartographer’s Quandary, we are looking at the map, ‘Where are Europeans protesting now?’ created by Investigating Europe with data from the Global Protest Tracker. Published following a major train collision in Greece, this map visualizes where and what types of protests are occurring in Europe. However, Investigating Europe had some cartographic struggles that do nothing to aid comprehension of the data. First, the map made the continent of Europe blue and bodies of water white, making it difficult to visualize the space. Next, there were no country labels on the map, requiring viewers to depend on their knowledge of national flags. Most importantly, the points connected to protests do not give geographic context within each country, and instead used large centroid points. This map could be improved through changes of colors, country labels, use of a choropleth map, and points that highlight the different protest types occurring in specific regions/cities across Europe. But is the effort to map protests on exceedingly broad categories like “Political” and “Economic” even useful? Are the local motivations for “Political” protests in Germany, Greece, and Georgia meaningfully similar enough to each other that blue dots tell the reader enough about any of them or all of them? An interactive map might prove useful if it allows the reader to explore each protest in greater detail, but this static graphic doesn’t give that opportunity.
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Q: What Canadian region is home to the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited place?
A: Nunavut Territory
The Canadian territory of Nunavut is the largest and northernmost territory in Canada, and the least populous. With a population of under 40,000, Nunavut is one of the world’s most remote, sparsely inhabited regions, and the least densely populated country sub-division in the world, even less than Greenland. It was officially separated from the Northwest Territories in 1999 after the passing of the Nunavut Act, which provided the territory to the Inuit peoples for independent government. It is Canada’s only geopolitical region that is not connected to the rest of North America via highway. Due to its high latitude and low continental summertime influence, Nunavut experiences a polar climate, with average lows hitting -30°F in the winters and average highs around 40°F in the summers. While seemingly disconnected from the rest of the world, Nunavut is home to a growing mining economy, hosts tourist recreational activities, receivies the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and tv production, and has two regional weekly newspapers.
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Q: Which pole is colder, the North or South Pole?
Stay tuned for the answer to today’s question in tomorrow’s DailyGeo.
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