Geography
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Geology Makes You Time-Literate
A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness. -
The Science Hidden In Your Town Name
How place names encode ecological change. -
What Makes Mysterious Orbs Shine Over a West Texan Desert?
Looking for an enigma from the Marfa Lights Viewing Platformrick valentin via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . It was a warm summer night when my friends and I drove out to the middle of the west Texas desert and turned off the road at a big sign […] -
Iron Curtain of the Mind—Our Tangled Thoughts on Geography
An East German border guard keeps a lookout for people trying to escape from communist Berlin to freedom on the other side of the wall. US National Archives Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . How well do we know the countries we call home? It seems obvious that travel […] -
Reading Lines in the Earth Like Lines in a Book
Light snow on Mt. Jumbo highlights the different shorelines of prehistoric Lake Missoula.Photo by Don Hyndman, courtesy of the University of Montana Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . You may not realize it, but all around you lie coded messages about the past. The curve of a hill, the […]
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Seeing Maps of Sounds and Smells
Jorge Louis Borges once described an empire that wanted to build a map. But the maps they had seen before were not precise enough. They had too much compression and approximation. There was too much inexactitude. And so the empire eventually made a map of the empire that was the size of the empire, and […]