The Map Scroll

Andrew Gelman takes a look at the 2008 election results in terms of class. You wouldn't know this if you followed the mainstream media ...

From the obscenely wonderful Radical Cartography , a map of mass transit systems throughout North America. (Note: I've shifted a couple...

No, it's not a mad scheme to embed the blueprint of Google's corporate ambitions in the genome of every living human (though don...

The New York Times is out with a couple of maps today depicting the state of the labor market in the US. (Hint: it's not great!) This on...

Yesterday, same-sex marriage was rendered legal by that state's Supreme Court (the same day it was made legal in Sweden). The movement ...

The Place of the Week heads out on yet another ill-advised voyage. This time we're traveling to the Hermit Kingdom: North Korea, where t...

From Renewing America's Food Traditions, a coalition of organizations dedicated to promoting the diverse foods and food traditions of No...

While we're on the topic of law and order and international norms, here's a map from the Criminal Justice blog at change.org on ca...

From Skunkblog , a map of cannabis laws around the world. (Note that the state of Massachusetts recently decriminalized possession of up to ...

That's the question that Good Magazine asks. Their answer is this map graphic . It measures 20 countries that seem to have been chosen m...

Via the excellent BLDGBLOG , here is a map of pirate incidents from around the world. The map is published by the International Chamber of C...

A team of MIT researchers has just come out with a new projection of climate change over the course of the 21st Century . Is this a map? I ...

UNESCO has just come out with a fascinating new resource: an Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger . The atlas lists some...

Matt Yglesias posts a simple but interesting map of the United States' high-voltage electricity grid. Yglesias quotes Bracken Hendricks...

This is a bummer: A NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere failed to reach its orbit during launching Tuesday mor...

Weather Underground updates this map every month. It shows the temperature anomalies around the globe for January 2009 relative to the aver...

Some dude named Chris found a cool screensaver that maps the news in real time. He discusses it here . The screensaver is billed as "an...

The possibly misguided continuation of the Place of the Week series takes us this time to an erstwhile paradise in the South Pacific: the Mi...