July is National Ice Cream month! This week’s database highlight goes to Culture Grams [1].

Culture Grams is your one-stop shop containing state and country profiles, graphs and tables, photos, biographical articles, and unique information like recipes from around the world. There is a version of this database just for kids and a version for everyone else.

Is America the only place that enjoys ice cream during the summer? Whether you’re planning a trip, researching countries for a report, or looking into your heritage, Culture Grams is an excellent place to learn about international and national culture.

This week’s free site isn’t necessarily informative but it could serve you well the next time you go to pick up your favorite Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor and can’t find it. Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Graveyard [2] lays flavors to rest and gives you a chance to bring them back from the dead.

Action Steps

1. Browse Culture Grams
2. List a country besides America that enjoys ice cream and tell me your favorite ice cream flavor (hint: use keyword “ice cream”; pro tip - the quotations are important for searching specific phrases)

Free earbuds to the first 5 respondents!