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...

Jeff Masters says , "one of the most remarkable weather events of my lifetime is unfolding this summer in Russia" where the curren...

Via Andrew Sullivan , this map animation from the Economist depicts the shrinking of the Arctic ice, and the brewing competition between t...

For the first installment of what may or may not become a regular weekly feature of this blog focusing on some odd or surprising corner of t...