The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
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France is split in two by its very own “desert,” the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.
There are good historical reasons why Germans are suspicious of surveillance.
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
The first of many dodecahedrons was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don’t know what they were for.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
The Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural map replaces geographic accuracy with closeness in terms of values.
The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.
Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.
Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?
In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.
Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.
By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.
Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.
One of the best-known allegorical depictions of love has a rather pessimistic male twin.
The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
In some countries, people want more freedom of speech. In others, they feel that there is too much.
Americans don’t like to ride the bus. There are ways to fix that.
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
A global survey shows the majority of countries favor Android over iPhone.
The four-color theorem was one of the past century’s most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.