One of my favorite weekly features in the local newspaper, the Boston Globe, appears each Sunday. “The Globalist Quiz” tests readers’ knowledge of the world around them.

The Globalist Quiz comes courtesy The Globalist, a web site dedicated to increasing understanding of world politics, culture, and economics by bringing to its visitors a wealth of information, resources, and regular features, including a Global Diary, a Globalist Factsheet, and of course the Globalist Quiz. A great way to start thinking globally.

If you’ve like to explore other web sites that increase global awareness, visit “New world view order: web site promotes ‘culturosity’” and “Acting globally: the importance of intercultural awareness for the international business traveler“.

The Federation of American Scientists has created a Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculator to bring home to Americans the devastating effects of a nuclear blast. Select your nearest U.S. city from the dropdown menu, choose the weapon yield (kilotons or megatons), and designate the delivery method–automobile or aircraft–to reveal in a chilling and deeply disturbing way the area of impact and the degree of destruction.

A quietly compelling case for nonproliferation if there ever was one.

(Thanks to Collision Detection.)

Within the next couple of weeks I will be publishing my 400th post here at Online Guide to Mediation.

Anniversaries of all kinds present a natural opportunity for taking both stock and perspective, and I would welcome your help with that. I’d really like to know what you like about this blog and what I can do better.

I have just a few questions for you, so it shouldn’t take up too much of your time. Your feedback means a great deal. Please click here for the online survey.

It’s completely anonymous, too (which means even my friends get to tell me what they think of this blog without worrying about hurting my feelings).

Ready? Then please go ahead and visit the survey, which will remain open to your responses until 5:00 EST on Sunday, September 17.

Thanks to everyone, of course, whether you take the survey or not–I’m always glad that you dropped by.

Alternative dispute resolution practitioners who specialize in workplace conflict will want to visit this week’s edition of Blawg Review, the review of the best of the week in legal blogging, hosted by the Workplace Prof Blog.

A member of the Law Professor Blogs Network and co-authored by law professors Richard Bales and Paul Secunda, this blog tracks and reports on developments in labor and employment law, including matters relating to alternative dispute resolution and the workplace, particularly arbitration. (Workplace Prof Blog is also listed in the World Directory of ADR Blogs.)

Next week’s Blawg Review will also be of interest to those of us in the conflict resolution field–it is hosted on Monday, September 11, by Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Institute for Global Security and Law Policy blog.

For those of you unfamiliar with Blawg Review, it constitutes a vital resource for news, ideas, and information regarding law and jurisprudence. If you practice or study law, if your work occupies the nexus between law and other fields, if staying informed about trends in legal issues matters to you, Blawg Review is your source. Or, if you simply want to be a better blogger, introduce yourself to Blawg Review, which each week introduces readers to exemplars of blogging excellence, as well as links to articles like uberbloggers Jim Calloway and Tom Mighell’s recent work, “Blawg: Marketing Your Practice with a Weblog“, appearing in the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Today–with advice that works for mediators, too.