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Opponents of America’s entry into the looming Second World War believed the U.S. would be dismembered.
Australia’s AAPowerLink boasts three global superlatives: largest solar farm, largest battery, and longest power cable.
Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
Great tidal ranges are relatively rare on a global scale — and can be very deadly to the unsuspecting foreshore walker.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
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.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
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.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
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.
Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
In a remarkably similar way, conspiracy theories around the world cast doubt on the existence of real places.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
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.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
Research suggests there’s truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats.
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.