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“We don’t want to make this; Moses is Darth Vader and Jacobs is a perfect angel from heaven.”
N+1 editor Charles Petersen’s piece in the new New York Review of Books compares Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to legendary city planner Robert Moses. Do we agree? Can we concede […]
HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).
Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
While a squirrel's life may look simple to human observers – climb, eat, sleep, repeat – it involves finely tuned cognitive skills.
The European currency features buildings that didn't exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete
The problem is that what's true of magnets is not at all true of romance.
Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.
After more than two years, we’ve visited all 110 objects. Have a look back at each one! “If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. […]
Probably the most recognisable map from the latter half of the 20th century - if you like tv westerns.
Dear Strange Maps, This really is the strangest, or perhaps most curious, map I’ve ever seen: Spam is almost as smart as chimpanzees these days. It gets harder and harder […]
The rising tide of evil, the relative safety of a few sanctuaries: these are the two main vectors of zombie cartography. In the first category, the epidemiological map shows the […]
Isogloss maps are irresistible, even if they are about cucumbers
Sure, the Allies are advancing... but a snail could do it quicker!
To celebrate her Jubilee year, the Queen had a large chunk of Antarctica named after her; possibly upsetting the Argentinians and Chileans.
Country motto: Don't do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Aren't we all honorary citizens?
It’s just a few weeks until the U.S. presidential election, and while nothing is set in stone, Mitt Romney’s hopes are looking increasingly dim. Despite the depressed economy, which would […]
A closer look at the cartography of the famous Disney ride
The soft-edged fiction that came before Alaska.
This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major topics and provide […]
Well, after sorting through all of the Leadership Day 2010 posts, tracking down incorrect URLs, deleting a few nonexistent items, and reviewing some attempts to recycle old posts, I believe […]