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Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
Pessimism reigned supreme.
Urinating in the direction of NATO’s staunchest opponent could cost you $350 or more. For world peace, aim wisely.
Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.
The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.
Are people are more likely to act less emotionally and more rationally when speaking their second language?
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.
Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.
There are good historical reasons why Germans are suspicious of surveillance.
The U.S. has the world’s largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan’s is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.
Our brains are hardwired to find fault. The best managers don’t let this steer how they interact with their team.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.
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