Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
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No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
Australia’s AAPowerLink boasts three global superlatives: largest solar farm, largest battery, and longest power cable.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
50 years ago, Herman Chernoff proposed using human faces to represent multidimensional datasets. It was a good idea in theory — but a disaster in practice.
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.
A radical proposal reimagines Europe as a carbon-neutral continent where national boundaries are replaced by regions defined by renewable energy capabilities.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
Quelle horreur! Paris isn’t just a 15-minute city; it’s a five-minute city.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
Research suggests there’s truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them “easy to get to, but not worth arriving at.”
All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.