The Wolfsonian–FIU charts global ambition in “Plotting Power: Maps and the Modern Age,” on view through April 16, 2023. Drawing from the Wolfsonian’s renowned collection of art and design, Plotting ...
A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...
A geography teacher from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region has gained fame for being able to draw a complete map of the world on a blackboard in just four minutes. Geography teacher draws world map in ...
<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...
Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.
It has long been known that many of the most popular maps of the globe are wrong. However, a new graphicshows exactly how wrong the commonly used Mercator map is. It reveals the huge imbalances in ...
To understand many of the worlds triumphs, tragedies and conflicts, according to geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan, look no further than a map. In his book The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan argues ...