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With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.
This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.
Two mounds of rice and a tiny flag in a sea of curry is enough to re-heat an old territorial conflict.
One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was a rather powerless virgin.
Maps can do more than show us places. They also can help determined people find others long lost, whether birth mothers or fugitive killers.
The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.
One of the best-known allegorical depictions of love has a rather pessimistic male twin.
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.
This map shows that the territories discovered by Europeans add up to an area no bigger than Utah.
The four-color theorem was one of the past century’s most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.
Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?
Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.
Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.
The Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural map replaces geographic accuracy with closeness in terms of values.
Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.
69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
There are good historical reasons why Germans are suspicious of surveillance.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.