Color into sound

Mike Dorn invited me to join in here. I'm Penny L. Richards, a lapsed geographer (BS and MS) with a PhD in Education. I mostly do history of disability now, as a research scholar at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. I believe Carol Marfisi and I are both from the Scranton area--it's a small world.

I came across this today--I hope this isn't old news here (didn't see it in the archives). A lab at Cornell is working on ways to make the colors on maps readable via sound: The blog Curb Cut Design linked to this story. Says the engineering graduate student who's working on the project, "Sometimes I just want to know where is the land and where is the sea."