The World at Night
The geography teacher in me was bound to rear its head sooner or later. These pictures are really worth checking out. It’s a composite of hundreds of photographs taken by satellites. I teach a lesson to my history students on this image. The lights, naturally, indicate major population centers (lights indicate people). Note how the Sahara desert in Africa, the Australian Outback and Northern Canada, among other places, are dark. Also check out the Nile River in Africa - lots of lights. The eastern seaboard of the USA, from Baltimore to Boston, is perhaps the brightest of all regions of the world.
If you click on the second picture, you’ll see an image of the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong Il, the tyrant dictator of North Korea, may have the bomb, but not much electricity. It is mandatory, in North Korea, that all electricity be turned off by 9 pm.
