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United States
Mapping Stay-at-Home Orders
Cellphone location data from intelligence firm Cuebiq analyzed by the New York Times, is measuring the range people travel each day across the United States. The average travel for over fifteen million phones were used to determine the median travel of each county. The resulting map illustrates the efficacy of nation-wide Stay-at-Home orders. The further and more often a person travels, the more likely it is that they are coming into contact with COVID-19 and abetting its spread. Disease experts have emphasized rapid reductions in travel as an essential preventative measure. The longer officials have waited to place the stay-at-home orders, the less effective they have been. In the South-Western United States, where travel limitations were more recently enacted, distance traveled has not yet decreased. Alternatively, early action states such as New York and California have proven successful at restricting their populations movement and hopefully decreasing virus transmission.
This map displays the dates when average distance traveled in each U.S. country dropped below two miles; counties in red have yet to decrease below 2 miles. Click on the map to learn more.
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European Union
Broken Migration Law
On Thursday, the European Union’s top court ruled that Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic had broken the law by refusing to host refugees under an agreement to ease the burden faced by Italy and Greece. More than 1 million displaced people crossed into the EU at the height of migration flows in 2015 and an estimated 160,000 of them were meant to be distributed among member states according to a quota system. The three central European countries now face possible fines for not aiding migrant placement. Reports indicate the Czech Republic accepted only 12 of the 2,000 refugees it had been designated, while Hungary and Poland received none. Since 2015, the EU has cracked down on immigration, fortifying its external borders and has offered aid to countries such as Turkey to help stem the flow of migration.
This map Eastern Mediterranean routes taken by refugees into the EU. Click on the map to expand.
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South Africa
Earliest Homo Erectus Found
Remains from the earliest known Homo erectus were excavated from the Drimolen quarry in South Africa, according to paper published yesterday in Science. The discovery, made by two Australian students in 2015, was the first evidence of Homo erectus ever found in South Africa. The fossil is believed to be about 2 million years old and is the first evidence that Homo erectus coexisted with other hominid species, Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus in South Africa at the time. Before this recent excavation, the oldest Homo erectus fossils were unearthed in Dmanisi, Georgia, leading some scientists to hypothesize that the species originated in Asia. Researchers believe this recent discovery offers evidence that Homo erectus traveled across the African continent and reached the Caucasus region over the course of approximately 200,000 years.
This map depicts the Drimolen quarry, northwest of Johannesburg, where the recent Homo erectus remains were found. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: The top five highest mountains in the Caribbean are located on which Island?
A: Hispanola
The island of Hispaniola, home to both Haiti and the Dominican Republic, contains the five tallest mountains in the Caribbean: Pico Duarte(10,164 ft), Loma Alto de la Bandera (9,324 ft), Pic la Selle (8,793 ft), Pic Macaya (7,700 ft), and Loma Gajo en Medio (7,477 ft).
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Q: The Gobi Desert is located in the rain shadow – an area blocked from rain-bearing winds – of which mountain range?
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