Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.
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Satellite movie shows clouds of carbon monoxide drifting over South America.
How deep are America’s cultural fault lines? Depends on which data you crunch.
Quantum theory has weird implications. Trying to explain them just makes things weirder.
The ‘People Map of the United States’ zooms in on America’s obsession with celebrity
A review of the global “wall” that divides rich from poor.
It shows Europe divided into two bafflingly unfamiliar blocs – what do red and blue stand for?
The summit of Europe’s most active volcano is also the world’s only decipoint.
“Brasilia, the biggest paper town ever.”
Far from acting as the conduits of a benevolent deity, these religious leaders threw the teachings of their own church out of the window.
Forensic cartography 101: Explain what Brasilia is doing on this map of 1920s South America.
Lovers deadlier than gangsters, first comprehensive Danish homicide study since 1970s shows
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
Researchers discover strange behavior in magnetars, ultra-powerful magnetic stars.
By transplanting Operation Barbarossa on a map of the US, it showed the devastating effects of the Nazi invasion
How the half-hour commute and motorised transport changed our cities into huge metropolises.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis argues that a comet strike caused major changes to climate and human cultures on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
The navigation tool has placed a school in the sea, among other things.
The Glen McLaughlin Collection brings together more than 700 historical examples of ‘California as an island’.
#MeToo and #TimesUp catapult America into the club of world’s most anti-women countries.
UNHCR data shows a small but intriguing flow of refugees from countries like France, Germany and the UK
As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.
Controversial map names CEOs of 100 companies producing 71 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
First contact movies had their Golden Age in 1980s America – now they’re going global.
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
Despite itself, this collection of awful cartography may just make a few useful observations.
Three scientists publish a paper proving that Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth.
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