Ancient sea travellers had heads in the clouds - Telegraph
"A stone tool found on a remote Pacific island has provided evidence that early Polynesians travelled 2,500 miles by canoe using only the stars, clouds and seabirds as navigational aids."
Sunday, February 21, 2010
LexiLine : Message: 19 LexiLine 2007 Megalithic Mapping & Cognitive Psychology
LexiLine : Message: 19 LexiLine 2007 Megalithic Mapping & Cognitive Psychology
"The blog Cognitive Daily has a June 7, 2007 posting titled Human GPS: Some of us are better equipped than others, pointing out on the basis of tests in cognitive psychology that 'navigation using both external visual information and mental mapping is the standard for most people.'
What the psychologists have discovered conforms to our arguments concerning the hermetic mapping system of the ancients in adapting the 'mental map' of the stars above to the external visual megalithic information which they correspondingly placed below."
"The blog Cognitive Daily has a June 7, 2007 posting titled Human GPS: Some of us are better equipped than others, pointing out on the basis of tests in cognitive psychology that 'navigation using both external visual information and mental mapping is the standard for most people.'
What the psychologists have discovered conforms to our arguments concerning the hermetic mapping system of the ancients in adapting the 'mental map' of the stars above to the external visual megalithic information which they correspondingly placed below."
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Geography in Italian Schools
The blog Thinking in GIS by Paolo Corti,writes on February 2, 2010 in The unity of all the sciences is found in Geography:
In Italy, recntly, a new law is being discussed and if approved it will substantially reduce the hours Geography is taught in schools....A petition campaign has been started to challenge that development....
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