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A Visual Representation of the 15,000 Temperature Records That Were Broken in March

Yes, you read that right. Data collected by NOAA reveal that the month of March saw a total of 7,755 daytime and 7,515 nighttime record-breaking high temperatures, making last month far and away “the warmest March on record.” The video featured up top shows the locations of each daytime and nighttime record (or tied record)…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 12

Say hello to the Moon’s true “dark” side

If you’ve ever heard someone talk about the Dark Side of the Moon, there’s a decent chance they were actually referring to its far side — i.e. the face of the Moon that is permanently pointed away from Earth. If this was the case, they were actually using the term “dark side” incorrectly; the far…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 11

World’s Largest Atlas Needs Two People To Turn Each Page

So how does the book publishing industry battle back as they watch its market share being slowly nibbled away by e-readers and tablets? Well, by churning out an incredibly massive 6 by 4 1/2 foot world atlas with a price tag of $100,000 of course. The Platinum Edition of Millennium House’s newest atlas—simply titled Earth—stands…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski Apr 10

Zombie survival Google Map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse

Did you forget to stock up on crossbows and canned beef stew for the inevitable zombie uprising? For shame! Fortunately for those of you who fell asleep during The Ant and the Grasshopper, there’s this handy Map of the Dead, which allows you to plot out the hospitals, gun stores, and grocery stores (among many…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 10

A 1793 map of England firing a tsunami of poop at revolutionary France

This is A New Map of England and France: The French Invasion, or John Bull Bombarding the Bum-Boats, a 1793 cartographic masterpiece that depicts an anthropomorphic Britain launching a tidal wave of feces across the English Channel at would-be French invaders and revolutionists. This piece was drawn by English caricaturist James Gillray, who made his…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 6

Low-income countries are a cigarette’s best friend

Between 1990 and 2009, cigarette consumption in regions of the world like Western Europe dropped by more than 25%. But according to the American Cancer Society’s newly released Tobacco Atlas, these numbers tell just a fraction of a much larger story. According to the extensive report, which you can access in its entirety on tobaccoatlas.org…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 6

Hand-drawn maps made by 19th-century school children

In the 19th century, it was common practice for American school children to learn geography by creating their own maps, painstakingly copying maps from existing atlases. The results are sometimes creative reinterpretations of the world’s geography. Although some students still draw maps today, map-drawing was especially popular in 19th-century schools (and especially girls’ schools) thanks…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 1

Google Maps Quest View turns your commute into an RPG

I don’t know if Google Maps is gifting us with an early April Fool’s Day prank, but I hope Quest View sticks around. Click on the right-hand corner of your Google map to see your local landscape transformed into a pixelated video game map, complete with mountains and trees in the appropriate places. You even…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 31

Here there be White Walkers in stylized Game of Thrones maps

We’ve seen tons of attempts to map the Song of Ice and Fire world, but J.E. Fullerton’s maps are an especially good fit for the medieval-inspired setting. His grand maps of Westeros and the regions beyond the Narrow Sea are filled with representative figures that capture the character of each part of George R.R. Martin’s…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 31

A mesmerizing, real-time map of US wind patterns

This weekend you watched ocean currents turn the Earth into a continuously evolving, geophysical Van Gogh painting. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-ocean-currents-turn-the-earth-into-a-living-v-5896210 Now, thanks to some smart programming and live weather data, you can witness swirling wind patterns from across the continental U.S. perform a similar trick. And best of all: you can watch it in real time. It’s…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 29

This Undulating US Wind Map Is Utterly Hypnotic

Earth’s wind patterns flow much in the same way as the oceans below them. This collaboration between Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg shows which way the winds of America are blowing. https://gizmodo.com/time-lapse-of-ocean-currents-looks-like-a-living-van-go-5896376 Appropriately dubbed “Wind Map,” it graphically displays barometric data—specifically surface wind speeds—collected from the from the National Digital Forecast Database. The page downloads…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 29

Turn Your Favorite Google Map Into a Wooden Work of Art

Maps can be beautiful things, that bring back memories, remind you of journeys, or just make you glad you live where you do. A company called Woodcut Maps now lets you preserve a Google Maps image in solid wood—and the results look gorgeous. https://gizmodo.com/we-all-live-in-a-watercolor-with-these-new-openstreetma-5895457/ All you have to do is find the location you want…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 26

These are the places in America where alcohol is still banned

The year was 1933. America’s fourteen-year experiment in sobriety was over; the federally mandated ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol had been lifted. All across the U.S., people welcomed the repeal of prohibition with open arms and flowing taps. Or rather, most of them did. Meet the counties where America’s “noble experiment” never…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 23

Google Street View is now available for the Amazon rainforest

Last summer, Google took its Street View cameras to the Amazon, looking to capture the same 360-degree vistas that have made the technology so useful in cities all over the world. Yesterday, the project went live. There goes the rest of your week. You can now wander around the Amazonian jungle — exploring its rivers,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 22

We All Live in a Watercolor With These New OpenStreetMap Skins

Google Maps is mighty useful, but not everybody’s a fan—including Apple, who seem to be ditching it. But OpenStreetMap isn’t the nicest looking thing, and let’s not discuss Bing. This new OpenStreetMap skin, however, is hands down the best looking digital map I’ve ever seen. https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-doesnt-need-google-maps-anymore-5891562 Produced by Stamen Design, these overlays turn the basic…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 22

A science fictional map of San Francisco as an archipelago city

125 thousand years ago, San Francisco was an island. And soon it will be one again, thanks to rising sea levels. Excellent San Francisco blog Burrito Justice has just posted their latest masterpiece — a science fiction story (with infographics!) about city planning squabbles in the 2070s, when San Francisco has become an archipelago. Click…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 21

New York City Map Made of Brands Is Perfect for Tourists, Snobs

Who cares about street names and numbers when you can have a whole city map made out with the brands of shops and chains everywhere? I will meet you at Louis Vuitton and Bvlgari in ten! See you there! [Citymaps]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 21

Behold, the first-ever geologic map of volcanic moon Io

Feast your eyes on the volcano-covered surface of Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. We’ve been snapping photo’s of Io’s stunning surface features for decades, but only recently did the US Geological Survey team up with NASA to create a detailed “global” picture of the moon; what you see here is the product…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 21

This is maybe the weirdest map of North America ever printed

In the late 1800s, merchants in the city of Superior, Wisconsin needed a way to convince other companies that their fair hamlet deserved to be a national center of manufacturing and shipping. To advance their cause, the Superior business interests created this rare map of a skinless, naked giant splayed entirely over the North American…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

This slime mold conquered (a miniature map of) America

A yellow goo has invaded the world’s motorways, spreading from capital cities to the furthest reaches of the transport network and devouring everything in its path. The infestation was unleashed by Andrew Adamatzky, a researcher of unconventional computing at the University of the West of England in Bristol, along with colleagues from universities around the…

io9 Jacob Aron - New Scientist Mar 16

A Visual Representation of the 15,000 Temperature Records That Were Broken in March

Say hello to the Moon’s true “dark” side

World’s Largest Atlas Needs Two People To Turn Each Page

Zombie survival Google Map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse

A 1793 map of England firing a tsunami of poop at revolutionary France

Low-income countries are a cigarette’s best friend

Hand-drawn maps made by 19th-century school children

Google Maps Quest View turns your commute into an RPG

Here there be White Walkers in stylized Game of Thrones maps

A mesmerizing, real-time map of US wind patterns

This Undulating US Wind Map Is Utterly Hypnotic

Turn Your Favorite Google Map Into a Wooden Work of Art

These are the places in America where alcohol is still banned

Google Street View is now available for the Amazon rainforest

We All Live in a Watercolor With These New OpenStreetMap Skins

A science fictional map of San Francisco as an archipelago city

New York City Map Made of Brands Is Perfect for Tourists, Snobs

Behold, the first-ever geologic map of volcanic moon Io

This is maybe the weirdest map of North America ever printed

This slime mold conquered (a miniature map of) America

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