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No prizes for guessing that English is the world’s lingua franca. But how good are the world’s other languages at spreading information?
You’ve probably never heard of Ahwaz. But the Emirate in waiting already has a flag – and, of course, a map…
On a recent flight over the Netherlands, I found the landscape stare back at me
Kick out the French, send over colonists, break the three ‘doors’ to the outside world
What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then this is what Africa might have looked like.
Yes, there is a map for that.
In 1923, a British survey team doodled an elephant on a map of a remote part of the Gold Coast – now Ghana.
Wyoming and Colorado are not the only cartographic twins
As Scots go to the polls to determine their future, one oracle has already decreed that independence is inevitable: Englishman Terry O’Neil discovered this piece of chicken in his KFC meal, and was struck by its resemblance to the contours of Britain — minus Scotland.
Ayn Rand fell for the popular misconception of the ancient myth
Edinburgh is the “grey metropolis in the North.” It has been for centuries, and thanks to Unesco, the capital of Scotland will keep its dour exterior for the foreseeable future. […]
Probably the most recognisable map from the latter half of the 20th century – if you like tv westerns.
Vice was just around the corner – but this map refused to show you where exactly.
The World was supposed to be finished years ago. But the financial crisis of 2008 slowed construction. Work now has resumed on the artificial archipelago off Dubai. However, changing plans […]
What is Punk? Punk isn’t about mohawks or studded leather, says Henry Rollins – it’s about resistance to tyranny in any form. How Art Can Change Society, with Sarah Lewis Sarah […]
Ian Fleming picked James Bond for the name of his hero because it was “brief, unromantic and yet very masculine”; he later became friends with the original James Bond, author of one of his favourite ornithology guides.
For songwriter and a scientist alike, the delight is in peering into the unknown, reaching in, and pulling some strange, new thing out of the darkness.
On 18 September, Scotland voted to stay in the UK by 55% to 45%: a wider margin than most expected, but still close enough to warrant the constitutional re-think promised […]
Designers of the new federal system for sending emergency alerts to our cellphones devoted a lot attention to setting up the technical aspects, but not enough to figuring out what the messages should say. Research suggests those messages don’t say enough to keep us safe.
Brazil v. Germany: 1-7. After the shock elimination of the Football World Cup’s host country Tuesday evening – by a historical and humiliating margin – one kind of expects as […]
Oslo to Copenhagen, the world’s next megacity?
New word of the day: equipopulous. Country A is equipopulous to country B if it has the same number of inhabitants. This map shows what a European Union with 28 […]
The wreck of the General Slocum in 1904 broke the spirit of Manhattan’s German enclave
Image credit: © 2015 MotorTrend Magazine, via http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/1110_mopar_underground_jeep_and_ram_run_wild_at_moab/photo_06.html. How gravity teaches us that the mountains we see extend far underground. “Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, […]
Tell me where you shop, and I’ll tell you where you are
So Cheney Lavonia has a job for me. In Thailand. Could I email her back? The message is spam and the name is fake, but the pseudonym is both mellifluous […]
Here are two maps that are also cartograms, using the same method to present each country’s population size: one square represents one million people.