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New York City’s Remotest Spot
A mostly scientific search for peace and quiet.
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Does America Really Need The National Mall?
Center stage for many historic protests and demonstrations, the National Mall has fallen on hard times.
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New York is for the rich only: “Inequality in housing has reached Dickensian dimensions”
Jane Jacobs' worst fears are slowly being realized. Gentrification has created a "high-rent blight" on the city
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Why Cannibals Were on Every 16th-Century Map of the New World
Many of the first European maps of the Americas included warnings of cannibalism, despite no proof of such activity. By Allison Meier.
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Map of World's Groundwater Shows Planet's 'Hidden' Reservoirs
Researchers from an international collaboration create the world's first groundwater resource map. They also estimated the world's current total supply and the ages of different segments of these resources.
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10 Maps That Defined 2015
A cartographic tour through the year’s biggest stories.
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The food desert of the north
Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the majority of homes Canada's Nunavut territory suffer from chronic food insecurity. Without relief in sight, survival sometimes comes down to killing a narwhal.
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UN: 1 in 122 people worldwide have been forced to flee homes
European countries need to set up a "massive" refugee resettlement programme, the head of the UN refugee agency says.
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Which countries are the world's most linguistically diverse?
Mapped: The 7,000 languages across the world. Many countries are home to hundreds of languages, sometimes despite having very small populations.
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Sunni-Shiite Map: Stark Political Split, Mixed Populations.
Behind Stark Political Divisions, a More Complex Map of Sunnis and Shiites.
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Half the World Lives on 1% of Its Land, Mapped
Feeling a bit cramped right about now?
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'Gigantic chasm under Antarctic ice'
A vast, previously unrecognised canyon system could be hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet, say scientists.
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This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering
It would be easy enough to do. The only thing lacking is the political will.
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This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes
Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of American Slavery Academy, relative to the entire slave trade, North America was a bit player. From the trade’s beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th...
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How Driverless Cars Will Transform Urban Spaces
You've heard about how robocars are going to upend the economy. But have you thought about what they'll do to urban space?
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27th January 1888 - National Geographic Society founded
the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.” The 33 men who originally met and formed the National Geographic Society were a diverse group of geographers, explorers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers, military officers and financiers.
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What can historic maps reveal about next week's New Hampshire primary?
New Hampshire political history resounds with the names of candidates who used the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary to vault to the White House. But what did those primary elections look like in the moment, town by town across New Hampshire?
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MWC 2016: Facebook uses AI to map people's homes
Facebook has announced it will make highly detailed maps of places where it believes people are living available to the public later this year. The social network has been using artificial intelligence software to scan satellite imagery and identify human-built structures. It hopes to use the information to determine where internet-beaming drones would best be deployed. But it suggests others could also make use of the maps.
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The Stunning Beauty of Braided Rivers
Most rivers flow in one broad channel of water, but some rivers split into lots of small channels that continually split and join each other to give a braided appearance. These are called braided rivers.
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When American Voters Had 2 Choices: Whig or Loco Foco
This fascinating electoral map from 1840 documents a chaotic time in American politics.
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