The internet is ripe with many cool things. We at the Icon thought this was pretty neat.
Brandon Martin-Anderson created a map that contains a dot for every single person counted in the last U.S. and Canadian censuses. That means 341,817,095 dots.
According to the site, he wanted "an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, etc." So he wrote a computer program and fed in the information from the census.
Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Romeo and Juliet” by National Players in the Stambaugh Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m.
This production of “Romeo and Juliet” is National Players at its best: fresh, contemporary and visceral. This rendering of star-crossed lovers is set to the pulsing rhythms of contemporary digital society, where everything is shared and nothing connects, and takes the play back to its source while bringing it viciously into the here and now.
The Community Economic Development Center (CEDC) at Ohio Northern University continues its entrepreneurship workshop series in the Dicke Forum on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The workshop will be preceded by a networking event at 5:30 p.m. The workshop will follow the networking event and conclude at 7 p.m.
The topic of the workshop will be “Taxes and Your Business” with Mary E. Fox, an attorney with Fox Ruhlen Co. LPA in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. This event is free and open to the public.
Peter Previte, Professor at the School of Pharmacy will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Bluffton Lions Club. He will be speaking on the topic of a “Brief History of the Federal Food/Drug/Cosmetic Act”.
The lunchtime meeting will be held Tuesday, Jan. 22 at Maple Crest Senior Living Center, Bluffton, at noon.
Members and anyone interested in signing up for the meal may do so by emailing [email protected]
The Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors met Thursday in Columbus for its regularly scheduled January meeting. The following are highlights from the meeting. The complete set of meeting minutes will be posted at www.OHSAA.org.
