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entomolog: Rhaetulus crenatus Westwood, 1871 (by A—-LIAW on Flickr)
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London Map, c.1920
from: The Citizen’s Atlas of the World; ed: John Bartholomew; 1924.
The railways and stations of London are shown in black.
Right click, open in new tab … to enlarge for your reading pleasure.
Sometimes you can almost smell that old map smell.
(via fuckyeahcartography)
What do the people in Arizona eat?
GOOD Magazine | Mapping America’s Eating Habits
What state spends the most on fast food? Or drinks the most soda? Or eats its vegetables? Check out this fun set of maps from the Daily Yonder that show how our diets differ by state and county. There are more here.
Colorado is the state with the lowest obesity rate, yet it’s one of the highest consumers of fast food?
Important Community News of the Day: Community will definitely be returning to television “before too long” says NBC Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt.
Attempting to assuage fan fears that the much-loved, though low-rated TV show had been canceled amid a midseason shelving, Greenblatt told The Daily Beast the sitcom “is coming back.”
“We just had to get some stuff moved around for midseason,” Greenblatt told Jace Lacob ahead of today’s Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. “But it’s not going anywhere. I can’t say anything about next season yet, but the fact that people think it’s gone … I need to fix that.”
Above: A photo snapped by Charley “Fat Neil” Koontz on the set of Community.
[tdb / warmingglow.]
Basically NBC trying to shut me up.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/cracking-planet.html
Combining a Buckminster Fuller-like interest in the most efficient way to map a sphere in two dimensions with a deployment of new algorithms, the maps show alternative ways of representing the earth’s surface.
(via fuckyeahcartography)