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One of the weirdest places in Antarctica is Blood Falls, a five-story cascade of blood-red liquid pouring from Taylor Glacier. Researchers finally traced its source: a saltwater lake millions of years old trapped under the glacier.
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The Inuit carve portable, waterproof, floating maps out of driftwood for use in navigating the littoral. From The Decolonial Atlas, an antidote to all the other ones: Kurdistan in Kurdish, Lakota Territory, Agricultural Maps.
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Or, your maps are lying to you but so would any other map. Your maps are lying to you! They are WRONG! Everything you learned is wrong! They are instruments of imperial oppressors! All because of the “monstrosity” of a map projection, the Mercator projection.
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Many of London's streets are highly polluted and this harmful air is said to contribute to thousands of deaths each year. At the heart of the problem is the vast range of vehicles on the capital's roads.
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A district will drop the Mercator projection, which physically diminished Africa and South America, for the Peters, which cut the developed world down to size A district will drop the Mercator projection, which physically diminished Africa and South America, for the Peters, which
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Today's maps found on the interwebs. If Every European Secession Movement Succeeded
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Legendary’s upcoming monster movie Kong: Skull Island hits theaters next week, and Google is having a bit of fun with it by plotting the film’s titular location on Google Maps. You can find the island on Google Maps, just south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean.
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One of the most common maps of the world is in fact, one of the most misleading. The problem is that the size of countries and continents have been either exaggerated or downplayed.
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Transport for London has released another alternative version of the Tube map—and it’s actually really useful. The London transport manager has created a ‘Walk the Tube’ map, which shows how long it takes to totter between stations. The full-sized version is here.
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