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'Reconstruction' begins of stone age lands lost to North Sea
Lost at the bottom of the North Sea almost eight millennia ago, a vast land area between England and southern Scandinavia which was home to thousands of stone age settlers is about to be rediscovered. Marine experts, scientists and archaeologists have spent the past 15 years meticulously mapping thousands of kilometres under water in the hope of unearthing lost prehistoric tribes.
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The country that brought a sea back to life
The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, but their neighbours on the opposite shore in Uzbekistan are suffering a very different fate.
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A student failed an assignment because her professor believed Australia 'is not a country'
A professor at Southern New Hampshire University failed one of her student's assignments because the professor incorrectly thought Australia "is not a country," according to a report in BuzzFeed News. Australia is, in fact, a country. The student, Ashley Arnold, is working towards an online sociology degree with the university. For one of her final assignments, she had to compare a social norm in the United States to another country. She chose to compare social media use in the US to what it's like in Australia.
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Water Margin
Searching for the sources of China’s great rivers. By Philip Ball.
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TIL: the fascinating island of Socotra
Socotra is a small archipelago of four islands off the point of the horn of Africa. It is part of a separate tectonic plate and has been an island group for tens of millions of years. Its flora and fauna are diverse and unique in the world. Humans arrived very early and some of its female inhabitants have unique DNA in the world. Its inhabitants were converted to Christianity by St Thomas, shipwrecked on his way to Kerala, later they became Nestorians and were eventually forcibly converted to Islam by Saudi Wahhabis in the 1800s. It was known to most of the ancient civilisations.
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Earth Has a New Continent Called 'Zealandia', Study Reveals
Kids are frequently taught that seven continents exist: Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
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New map reveals shattering effect of roads on nature
Rampant road building has split the Earth’s land into 600,000 fragments, most of which are too tiny to support significant wildlife, study shows
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In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, Giants, and Dragons
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the mysterious lands of the western hemisphere were a misty haze of tales and stories. After Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, curious Europeans ate up fantastic sagas about sea monsters, exotic wildlife, and foreign civilizations. Teasing out fact from folklore created an ever-growing obstacle for depicting what the Americas truly looked like.
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The tree of anthropological types by V. V. Bunak
There are many classifications of human phenotypes, but each of them makes us recall the history and the present state of mankind.
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Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions'
As economic centers grow in size and importance, determining their boundaries has become more crucial. Where do you fall on the map?
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This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award
The 2016 Good Design Award results were announced recently with awards going to over 1000 entries in several different categories. But the coveted Grand Award of Japan's most well-known design award, given to just 1 entry, was announced today.
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The place furthest from land is known as Point Nemo
One spot in the ocean is further from land than any other, and it is a rather peculiar place
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New Map Shows Where Earth Has Gained and Lost Land
Scientists who mapped where land and water have shifted were surprised to find that Earth has gained more land than it has lost since 1985.
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The Star-Studded Story Behind Ko Tapu, the most Famous Islet in Thailand
You've undoubtedly seen photos of this craggy karst tower shooting into the sky from turquoise waters. But what's the story behind this surreal locale?
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McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?
Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural concepts. In this post, I will introduce basic architectural concepts and explain why not all suburban/exurban/residential houses are McMansions, as well as what makes a McMansion especially hideous.
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What life is really like in ‘America’s worst place to live’
One of the big dangers of our glorious, new quantified world is the emergence of a type of numeric stereotyping — of insights hardened into dogma by the weight of a thousand data sets.
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Google Maps did not ‘delete’ Palestine — but it does impact how you see it
Protesters think Google wiped Palestine from its maps. The truth is far more complicated. In their attempts to dispassionately document the physical world online, tech companies often end up shaping our understanding of it, too.
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How Big Coal summoned Wall Street and faced a whirlwind
Over four decades, the Hobet coal mine transformed from a small operation to a magnet for corporate buyouts. Its shift tells a larger story of coal in decline.
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First Map Of Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed.
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Compare Countries With This Simple Tool
Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.
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