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Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
Find the Easter eggs—or the naked lady.
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Google Maps driver detained, accused of being a government agent
He swore on a statue of Buddha he wasn't secretly working for the government.
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Awesome Interactive Map Shows 'The Financial States Of America' With Tons Of Economic Data
We spotted this interactive map from MoneyChoice.org, which shows a ton of economic data in an easily understood and very cool way. You can check out how your state ranks and the data behind the rankings on anything from GDP, household income, tax burden, etc. This would certainly come in handy if you might want to move to an area with a better outlook.
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Are crowdsourced maps the future of navigation?
Telenav hasn’t just hired OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast away from Microsoft; the navigation company plans to wean itself entirely off of proprietary cartography, relying solely on OSM’s collaborative, crowdsourced and freely available maps.
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How to Use Mind Maps to Unleash Your Brain's Creativity and Potential
Mind mapping is one of the best ways to capture your thoughts and bring them to life in visual form. Beyond just note-taking, though, mind maps can help you become more creative, remember more, and solve problems more effectively. Whether you're new to mind maps or just want a refresher, here's all you need to know about this technique.
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What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?
An artist-geologist renders the history of the Earth with maps.
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Maps are all lies - How to represent a spherical world on a flat surface
Is Greenland really bigger than Africa and Australia? Take a deep breath. The big map in your high school classroom, the atlas you've used to navigate during a road trip and even google maps are ...
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7 Tips To Travel Smarter With Google Maps
Going on a trip can be such a stressful experience. There are hotel reservations to make, restaurant reservations to place, activities to plan out, and tickets to buy. What if you forget something, or you discover that the place you wanted to visit for your dream vacation falls far short of being anything anyone would describe as a dream?
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How 5 Countries Could Become 14
Slowly, the map of the Middle East could be redrawn.
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Age of Internet Empires: One Map With Each Country's Favorite Website
Two researchers, Mark Graham and Stefano De Stabbata, at the Oxford Internet Institute have depicted the world’s “Internet empires” in a map, below. The map shows each nation’s most popular website, with the size of nations altered to reflect the number of Internet users there.
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This Map Shows The Most Famous Book Set In Every State
Every state has a book that it is best known for. Here are the most famous books that take place in every state.
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The amazing history of the Nobel Prize, told in maps and charts
The United States added three more Nobel laureates to its roster on Monday, all in economics, bringing the national total to an astounding 347 in the prize's history. That's the most of any country in the world, by far: next-highest ranked is Britain with 120 laureates.
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Map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State
There will always be people out there picking weird names for their kids, but when you look at the choices that make their way to the top you'll see that Americans tend to play it safe. The maps above, based on data from the Social Security Administration, show the most popular baby names for girls by state, for babies born from 1960 through 2012, with the colors representing the most popular single name for that year.
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Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics
Near the end of 1861, with the American Union crumbling, President Abraham Lincoln became obsessed with an unusual document. Nearly three feet in length, it appeared at first to be a map of the southern states. But it was covered with finely rendered shading, with the darkness of each county reflecting the number of slaves who lived there. South Carolina, the first to secede from the Union, featured a particularly dark coastline.
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What Each Country Leads the World In
Doghouse Diaries has created a funny and informative world map that shows “What Each Country Leads The World In.” According to the map, Japan leads the world in robots, and the United States leads in Nobel laureates and people getting killed by lawnmowers.
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The Three Kinds of People Who Live in the United States
According to a new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, psychological traits really do vary by region.
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7 ridiculous restrictions on women’s rights around the world
According to one measurement, though, there are actually several countries that rank lower on women;s rights than Saudi Arabia. The World Economic Forum, which publishes the preeminent ranking on gender gap issues, ranked Saudi Arabia 10th from the bottom in its 2013 report - ahead of Mali, Morocco, Iran, Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Syria, Chad, Pakistan and Yemen.
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Extent of Peruvian Amazon lost to illegal goldmines mapped for first time
Researchers have recorded a 400% increase in the area of Madre de Dios taken over by small mines from 1999 to 2012
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MAP: 9 states besides Texas that are making it harder for women to vote
Women have been allowed to vote in the United States since 1920, after the passage of the 19th Amendment. But fast-forward to 2013, and plenty of states' laws have a provision that makes it harder for women who are married or divorced to cast a ballot.
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A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths
In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans. Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, there will be more than 9 billion. Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software development. He wanted to make those numbers visual.
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