Strange Maps — July 23, 2010

500.000 Hits

This blog has been up since September 2006. In that half year, I’ve posted 90 maps, gotten about 1.000 comments – most of them interesting and/or favourable – and just now the traffic on this site tallied up to 500.000 hits… That’s way more than I imagined for a blog merely intended to be a storage room for some strange maps I like.

Thank you all for your interest and contributions! And especially for any maps you suggest, some of which I’ve already posted, others I will in the future, all of which I appreciate greatly. It’s been cool to find out so many people like maps.

a bottle of beer next to a toilet paper roll.

Hard Science

Cans vs. bottles: Science finally solves the great beer debate

Beer’s flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?

a pile of money with the words 7 ways to make more money.

7 steps to profit hypergrowth

How to make money in business, with $100-million Salesforce pioneer Aaron Ross.

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a red and yellow car driving down a street next to a crowd.

The Past

We used to have steam-powered cars. What happened to them — and will they come back?

Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?

Hubble view of galaxy containing GRB 221009A BOAT

Starts With A Bang

Gamma-ray burst is the new B.O.A.T. — brightest of all-time

Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic cosmic events of all. On October 9, 2022, a remarkable one occurred: the brightest ever seen.

a group of people's faces with different colors.

Thinking

“The self” doesn’t exist. Instead, you constantly shape multiple selves

We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.

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