The Map Scroll

Via Boing Boing and The New Yorker , a map animation that shows every detonation of a nuclear bomb until 1998, by Japanese artist Isao Hash...

The New York Times has an article about the escalating fight against Maoist rebels in India. It includes this map: Says the Times: India’s ...

Robert D. Kaplan has a fascinating article in the new issue of Foreign Policy in which he makes the case for the preeminence of geography ...

Here's more on wealth since 1500 , from Visualizing Economics : You can pretty clearly see that the story of the global economy from li...

Here's another one from the Library of Congress . This is a 19th Century Burmese Buddhist depiction of the universe. Interestingly, it ...

Here's more from the Florida, et al. paper (PDF) on megaregions. This shows the megaregions of Asia. They are: 1) Tokyo , with 55 milli...