The Map Scroll

Jungle. Ancient civilization. Lasers. Cool : Says the NY Times : A small aircraft flying back and forth above the ancient Maya city of Carac...

So they went ahead and had those elections in the UK, as you may have heard. The result was a major victory for primary colors, as this Wik...

Thither , according to an oceanologist from the University of South Florida College of Marine Science Ocean Circulation Group , which has mo...

Proving that you don't have to have centralized government control of your economy to wreak environmental havoc, that oil rig that blew...

The BBC has an election seat calculator for the upcoming UK elections: I will say this: UK electoral democracy appears to be pretty messed ...

The Aral Sea is just... about... Gone. Another image of the sea from March 2010: From the Huffington Post : The drying up of the Aral Sea is...

Via The Map Room , NASA's Earth Observatory posts some nice images of cities at night. E.g.: From le text: Border cities like Ciudad Ju...

No, not the decently high quality yet reasonably priced used clothing store on Westheimer Road in Houston, TX. Why would you think I'm ...

Yet another entrant in the genre of happiness cartography , this time courtesy of Gallup : The survey of 155 countries describes respondents...

Stephen Von Worley, burger cartographer extraordinaire , has created a map that presents fast food dominance across US territory in delectab...

There was an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile this morning. That is one of the ten strongest quakes in history, and a hundred times stronge...

The NY Times has an interactive map of Olympic medals won by country: This represents medals won in the Vancouver Olympics thus far. You...

PeteSearch finds some patterns in the ways Facebook users are connected to each other: The colored clumps represent areas within which user...

Gallup asked some people how satisfied they were with their standard of living, which yielded this result: Says Gallup: The 2009 satisfacti...

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: how much of the Northern Hemisphere is currently covered in snow, and can this informa...

A proposal for electoral reform from fakeisthenewreal : It's neat and all that the US was the first modern country to adopt many democra...

The classic Eames film: Because I'm feeling rather logarithmic this week.

Some countries have been historically lucky. Some have been unlucky. And then there is Haiti. I've always rooted for Haiti - how can you...