The Map Scroll

Dear Internets, Busy busy busy. Changes are afoot, as I'm taking on a... well, a sort of government job on the East Coast. That means mo...

Coming Anarchy imagines a future Europe where the continent's various semi-latent separatist movements have achieved their goals: The c...

this is what they are seeing: It is humbling and awe-inspiring to think that we humans are the seat of self-consciousness in the universe -...

David Strahan, the journalist and author of the peak oil tome The Last Oil Shock , has an interactive Oil Depletion Atlas : You can roll ove...

Another map from that Jeff Masters post confirms something I had strongly suspected: Texas was hot in June! But then, so was the Southeast,...

Jeff Masters says: "The fabled Northwest Passage is more than half clear now, and has a good chance of melting free for the third cons...

Via Matt Yglesias (via Ryan Avent ), an interactive map of job listings per capita for US cities: Washington, DC has far and away the most...

Some people wanted to see maps of the distributions of specific drugs, to which I say: very well! Here are some more maps derived from the S...

This report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ( SAMHSA ) details drug use across the 50 states based on th...

Not long ago, I did a post about the Happy Planet Index , a quantification of 'ecological efficiency' from the New Economics Foundat...

Town Me , a community website for San Francisco, takes the always fascinating project of demographic sub-group cartography (and you may take...

Like cycling? Like maps? The New York Times has a nice interactive map of the Tour de France course: Stages are numbered; Wednesday's 5...

I've posted before on a map of the Iranian blogosphere . But now I discover, via Matt Yglesias , that PoliticoSphere.net has such a map ...

From the Baltimore Sun's B'More Green blog comes news (via the Sun's Garden Variety blog ) that the US Department of Agricultur...

Via New Scientist , the most detailed and complete topographical map of the world ever produced has been created with data from NASA's T...

More on global warming, this time from Conor Clarke , who links to William Cline's study Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimate...

So there's a bill to do something about global warming that's wending it's way through the US Congress; it's known as Waxman...

Via Bats Blog at the New York Times, flipflopflyball.com , by graphic designer Craig Robinson, has a bunch of infographics about baseball. ...