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620 - Paleo by Comparison: the Million-Year-Old Map 23 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
Cartography is an ancient urge. Humans made maps long before they invented writing. But whereas the origin of the written word can be pinpointed with some certainty to the Middle East at the end of t....
619 - Is Ulster Doomed? Scenarios for Repartition 15 Aug 2013 | 05:55 am
To condemn the riots that rocked Belfast last Friday as "shameful", as the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers has done, fails to address the two conflicting impressions t...
618 - Milk, the Drink of Conquerors 5 Aug 2013 | 05:08 am
The drink of conquerors? Not wine, or rum, or even the blood of your enemies - but milk. Plain old milk. Recent scientific discoveries suggest that the spread of farming across prehistoric Europe ma.....
617 - The Sahara Sea: A French Mirage in North Africa 1 Aug 2013 | 06:52 am
In 1870s France, Ferdinand de Lesseps was a rock star. This was the man who had dared to dream the Suez Canal into being. Finished in 1869, it not only shaved off 6,000 km (nearly 4,000 miles) off the...
616 - All Quiet on the Illinois Front 24 Jul 2013 | 05:06 am
It's the morning of Wednesday, 13 September 1939, and in an America supremely at peace, newspapers hit front lawns with headlines screaming of war. The horrific dispatches splashed across the front pa...
615 - The Eruv, a Jewish Quantum State 22 Jul 2013 | 05:29 am
Home isn’t where your heart is, where you make your bed or even where you lay your hat. It is where you draw the line that separates what’s yours from what’s not. This line surrounds your inner sanctu...
614 - Terminal Cartography: a World Map of Death 7 Jul 2013 | 05:34 pm
The afterlife, in the words of Tennyson [1], is "that untravell'd world whose margin fades / For ever and forever when I move". Death is the ultimate one-way trip, its final destination by definition....
613 - Faces of Earth: A Mapping Contest Between Man and Machine 29 Jun 2013 | 06:27 am
Draw two dots above a straight line, place them in a circle, and even children a few years old will spot the semblance with a human countenance. Whether it's the features of Jesus on a piece of toast ...
612 - The Map as Medicine: an Inky Souvenir of a Soothing Park 17 Jun 2013 | 12:35 am
'Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri was about 35 and suffering from what we now would call a mid-life crisis, when he wr...
611 - Our One-Continent World: Pangea (Political) 9 Jun 2013 | 02:30 pm
There's much to criticise about this map of Pangea [1], but in spite of the geological anachronisms, it's hard to tear your eyes away from it. The map shows a world in which the continents have broke...
