On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
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Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.
By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.
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.
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
The Field Medal was created to elevate promising mathematicians from underrepresented demographics. But has it followed through on that goal?
Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
The author of ‘How We Read’ Now explains.
Mapping the frequency of common toponyms opens window on Britain’s ‘deep history’.
Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a “super state.”
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
Esoteric evidence points to a ritual performed by Queen Elizabeth’s court magician John Dee.
The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms.
Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.
Europe’s border closures due to coronavirus go against a fundamental freedom enshrined in the Schengen Agreement.
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
Is the experience we call “love” felt the same in every language?
To create wiser adults, add empathy to the school curriculum.
Now an insult, ‘cretin’ was the medical term for a debilitating disease endemic in the Alps until the early 20th century.
As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.
One silver lining of the pandemic: The value of common sense, facts and rational decisions increases.
The response to the pandemic illustrates five actions we can take to address the global climate change crisis.
‘Kanal Istanbul’ would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.
Should other nations start requiring schools to teach climate science, too?