How spatial thinking could help children learn maths – and go on to use it in their careers: SUKJAI PHOTO/Shutterstock Do you struggle to visualise how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box? How are you with flat-packed furniture? Are you good at giving directions? These everyday activities require …
Growing up in a city can harm your spatial skills – new research: Manhattan is griddy. Shutterstock The science fiction film Tron Legacy opens with voice of main character, Kevin Flynn, musing of a digital world of his creating: The Grid. The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they …
Sony Middle East & Africa Broadens Availability of 360 Spatial Sound Experience with Upgrade to HT-A7000 and HT-A5000 Premium Soundbars: South Africa, 7 January 2022 – Sony Middle East & Africa announced a software upgrade for the premium HT-A7000 and HT-A5000 soundbars, which will add the customer-loved 360 Spatial Sound Mapping capabilities that first premiered …
Megaprojects in Addis Ababa raise questions about spatial justice: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital. Plans are underway to give the city a facelift. Getty Images Urban investments across the African continent are at an all-time high. Yet the nature of these investments differs starkly across cities. Many of them are driven by political considerations. For example, …
An introduction to spatial joins with QGIS: QGIS is a free and open source geographic information system (GIS) that is extensible, interoperable with other GISes, and used by a ton of people (including me) who have geographic data to analyze and visualize. It’s a great platform with an enormous set of capabilities, which can seem …