While satellites and infrastructure crumble, we are also witnessing an explosion in space tourism that is exposing the gap between the Haves and Have-Nots in space.
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The ship has been a popular metaphor for statecraft since at least the Ancient Greeks. The ‘ship of state’ was mentioned by Aeschylus in Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), and […]
A new generation of climate models and the visionaries who wield them show that our carbon legacy will last far longer than most of us realize, long enough to interfere with future ice ages.
In his new book, 1493, Charles Mann gives us a rich, nuanced account of how the Columbian Exchange continues to reunite the continents and globalize the world.
American ships are again under siege by pirates off the African coast. The Pirates of Somalia — we have the weapons to defeat them. All we lack is the will.
GUEST POST BY JASON SILVA “Intertwingularity” is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge. He wrote: “EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an […]
Everybody, meet Kergolus. This little furry thing is a geo-mascot, shaped like the territory it symbolises. Top marks if you’re able to guess which territory that is, either by the […]
n Ahead of the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January, Threadless recently announced the winner of the Threadless Loves Innovation t-shirt design contest. Deborah Kassoff, a member of the judging […]
If I wasn’t out of town, helping our peripatetic college student move out of her dorm at the end of the quarter, I would probably be going to a video […]
n nOver the (very brief) July 4th holiday, I had a chance to catch up some innovation-related reading. This cover story in the current New York Times Magazine, for example, […]
Every once in a while, scientists come up with an clever idea that is so novel and unexpected that it catches you by surprise. The idea by itself may not […]
“Disorientation is lost of the East,” novelist Salman Rushdie has written, reminding us of the original meaning of “Orient.” In The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918, which […]
[cross-posted at E-Learning Journeys] Change is a process in a school. Change is neither good nor bad but just is. Rapid change can cause discomfort and upset. No change can […]
One of the issues I have been getting a number of questions on lately is the links (imagined and otherwise) between AQAP and al-Shabab in Somalia. This NPR story, for […]
George Monbiot says financial crisis cuts in the U.K. are being used to “reshape the economy in the interests of business – and to trash the public sector.”
Khalid al-Hammadi has an excellent report on the surprise visit of Khalid Mishal of Hamas to San’a, where he offered to serve as a mediator between Yemen and Iran. Very […]
This article sums up a lot of the events that led up to the Kasatochi (Alaska) eruption last week from the point of view of the biologists on the island […]
A peculiar reversal of cartography’s ‘original sin’
Just to show you how out of touch Inhofe and his staff are in their attack on the media, they even label as alarmist Andrew Revkin of the NY Times. […]
So let’s now speak about the future. You may have heard about the asteroid Apophis, which is about the size of the Rose Bowl Stadium. It’s said that the large […]
“Who would not pity the poet who has to write and make his rhymes about some bold Sir Francis Drake’s brave journey round the tetrahedron?”
The semi-mythical Greek is not only the father of the epic poem, but also of geography
The Zeno Brothers invented a bunch of islands north of Scotland that turned out to have remarkable staying power on maps
Is the Land of Oz located on a retrograde planet?
n In September 1578, while sailing near Greenland’s southernmost point at Cape Farewell, captain James Newton of the Emmanuel recorded in his log the first sighting of an island “seeming […]
They even made it through the Northwest Passage
n The Turks have Piri Reis, whose 1513 map shows parts of America and Antarctica with astonishing and, in the case of Antarctica, frankly inexplicable accuracy. The Chinese have this […]
Centuries of isolation left the Japanese with limited knowledge of world geography
While Thomas Eakins’ masterpiece The Gross Clinic undergoes a facelift on the east coast in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew (my […]
Imagine for the moment a classic work of modern art as pictured above. When a curator takes a heavy and bulky wooden frame, places it around the complex and uncertain […]