Europe at Night
[T]his is actually a composite produced by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration revealing a decade in European economic
development and decline.
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World from Space, Over the Year
This NASA moving image, recorded by satellite over a full year as part of
their Blue Marble Project, shows the ebb and flow of the seasons and vegetation.
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Ethnic Canadians
I recently stumbled across this map of “Leading Ethnicity by Census Division,”
based on the 2006 Canadian census (original on
Wikipedia). Maps
fascinate me and I thought this one was pretty cool. I thought I’d share a few
thoughts, but first the map itself:
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The Shortest Distance is…
The time-old adage is that “The shortest distance between two points is
a straight line.” Most of what we see day-to-day would confirm that. On
paper, you use a ruler, sometimes called a “straight edge,” to connect
two dots. In a field, it’s easy to apply the same principle and cut
straight across. But then why do the network maps for the airlines
always have those funny looking arcs? What happened to those straight lines?
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