Tag: GEOGRAPHY

As much as Google has shrunk our world for the better, we fear the all-seeing G might, in the same motion, strip it of the wonders it holds. Then, we see something like this game. Giving you a Street View image, a gridded world map and fifty guesses, it asks you to pinpoint the spot it was taken, and remember the uniqueness of every vista and street corner. ...

Author Joel Garreau, who also serves as an editor at the Washington Post, has attracted a cult following among social scientists with his revolutionary work 'The Nine Nations of North America.' In the book, Garreau argues that states have become obsolete, and that North America should be reapportioned based on geographical, social, cultural, and economic factors. Pete Warden, a former engineer ...

In response to the latest in a series of recent geopolitical controversies, Facebook has announced that members living in the Golan Heights, a politically contested region nestled between Israel and Syria, will now have a choice of defining their geographical network as either Syria or Israel. Until now, users belonging to the Katzrin (Qasrin) network were defined, per Facebook cartography, as ...

Thanks to Google Earth, and a fortunate, cardioid shape, the tiny Croatian island of Galesnjak has become a lover's escape for couples worldwide, reports the Telegraph. The owner of the island, Vlado Juresko, told the Telegraph that, though he has always been vaguely aware of the island's shape, its uncanny resemblance to a cartoonish heart didn't dawn on him until he was bombarded with booking ...

Smithsonian Amazing Talking Globe Another thing we learned early on is that Bush Jr. is not real knowledgeable 'bout them other places. Sure he's gotten better, but there's always room for improvement. This talking globe will help him learn what countries are where and teach him a bit about different cultures, so he can avoid the early boondoggles of his administration's reign when Daddy ...