Tag: geography

  • Rivers and Borders

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    We made it to Friday, everyone. Well done. And so today we have a neat little comic from xkcd that has a small map about something that looks like an oxbow lake. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • What Does Your Name Mean? (Country-level Edition)

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    Shoutout to my very good friend Jonathan Fairman for passing this one along. Browsing the internets, I often find these little adverts saying something about “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Name” or “10 Things Your Name Says About You”. They grab my attention because, as you all know, genealogy is kind of a…

  • Arctic Sea Ice Levels Continue to Decline

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    You may recall how over two years ago I posted about a piece from the New York Times that explored the levels of Arctic sea ice. It showed how the winter sea ice of 2015 was the lowest level ever recorded. Well last week the Times updated that piece with new data. And instead of the…

  • Earthquake Early Warning

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    Last month, two massive earthquakes devastated Mexico. Now, if you were like me, you were captivated by the photos and videos of the quakes striking and tearing down buildings and infrastructure. But, think about it for a second, how did people know to take out their mobiles and record the tremors for posterity’s sake? Well,…

  • Nambia

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    C’mon. You knew I was not going to let that one slip by. President Trump, in a meeting with African leaders, twice name-dropped Nambia and in one mention held it up as having a nearly self-sufficient healthcare system. Funny thing to mention as the US is on the brink of eviscerating its healthcare system. But…

  • Where to Site Amazon’s HQ2

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    One of the stories I am interested to work on visualising in that mythical land of free time is a comparison of potential host cities for Amazon’s recently announced HQ2, a second corporate headquarters. In the meantime, I read this piece from the Times that attempted to decide for them. I have some qualms with…

  • Alaskan (im)Permafrost

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    I woke up this morning and before breakfast I opened the door to bring in today’s edition of the New York Times. I enjoy reading the paper, or at least a few articles, over breakfast (and more often than not preparing a post for here at Coffeespoons.me). Some of the best days are when I…

  • Nobody’s Fault

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    We made it to Friday, everyone. So let us end the week with an examination of the different type of geographic faults, as explained by xkcd. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • I’m Wondering Where France Really Is

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    Today’s post is not so much about a graphic per se, instead I read an article in the Guardian about how Boston’s public school system has decided to switch from the Mercator map projection system to the Gall-Peters projection system. The article is worth a read if only for the embedded clip of the episode…

  • Piece, Larsen C

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    When I was in high school in 2002, it was big news when one of the three Larsen ice shelves in Antarctica, Larsen B, collapsed. And then when I was at university, the band British Sea Power wrote a song titled “Oh Larsen B” that I have always enjoyed. Now Larsen B was not the first…