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A fascination with the world of maps

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...
Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...
A new U.S. study reveals who has reliable air conditioning and who doesn’t, exposing deep inequalities in how people ...
MOSCOW, October 23. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the congress of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), instructed the government to explore the possibility of declaring 2027 ...
Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text.
Nearly 1 in 6 Americans lives in a “distressed” community. Where they live and what they experience could explain a lot about our politics.
Vladimir Putin took part in a plenary session of the 17 th Congress of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS). The event took ...
Yiddishculture.co. is the latest project by sociologist and educator Adina Cimet, founder of the Educational Program on ...
A judge heard arguments Thursday about Utah's new proposed congressional maps and the statistical tests lawmakers picked to ...
A collection of non-fiction that captures the world’s complexity through insight, depth, and perspective without reducing ...
A new study indicates that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis (MS) have an extremely high geographic association, even after controlling for race, gender, wealth, latitude, and ...