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| website | https://freyfogle.com |
| job | https://opencagedata.com |
| organize | https://thegeomob.com |
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Long time followers will recall that we covered the "special relationship" between Cyprus 🇨🇾 and Greece 🇬🇷 when it comes to the Eurovision Song Contest in our #geoweirdness thread last year about Eurovision 🕺

Attached: 1 image 8/ Often the voting is not based on musical merit, but instead based on ethnic diaspora, political alliances, or cultural ties. The most famous example is Greece 🇬🇷 and Cyprus 🇨🇾, which have a long history of awarding each other the max 12 points. It caused quite the stir in 2015 when this didn't happen: https://eurovisionary.com/frustrations-greece-cyprus-not-exchanging-usual12points/ There have been research papers written about Eurovision voting biases https://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/21/1/1.html
This time in #geoweirdness we turn our focus to the eastern Mediterranean - join us for a look at the geopolitical oddities of the island of Cyprus
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The world’s shortest scheduled passenger flight is between Westray and Papa Westray in Scotland.
The flight between the islands covers a distance of just 2.7 km and takes about one minute. The record flight time is 53 seconds.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/116514953039588679
As some of you have already guessed: the progressive parties in German politics (and the social democrats 😉) have jointly decided to leave the manipulative and abusive cesspit that twitter has turned into. I‘m very happy and also a little proud of this.
If you want want to do me a favor, be ready to welcome an influx of mildly woke people.
#xit #fediverse
🔋 🔌 ☀️ In Varel wird heute Deutschlands größte Moor-Photovoltaikanlage eröffnet.
Der Solarpark auf wiedervernässter Moorfläche ist etwa 40 Fußballfelder groß und soll Strom für mehr als 9.000 Haushalte liefern. Gleichzeitig bleibt die Fläche landwirtschaftlich nutzbar.
Das Projekt wird wissenschaftlich begleitet und soll jährlich über 23.000 Tonnen CO2 einsparen.
#NDR #photovoltaik #erneuerbareenergien #solar #energiewende
This week on the Geomob podcast, @freyfogle and @stevenfeldman recap two recent Geomob events: our first-ever Geomob Cologne and Geomob Berlin.
Have a listen here:
https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-336
A big thanks to GEO Business for sponsoring this episode!
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