geography
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Striking New Maps Show The Beauty Of Earth’s Shadows
Image Cache: We are visual beings: Our perception of the world is intrinsically tied to our ability to perceive light. But what about the places where light doesn’t fall? Do places in shadow still encode information for the visual cortex to process? Can shadows actually tell us something meaningful about the landscapes they darken?
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Egypt Is Such A Beautiful Rectangle, Man
You ever notice how rectangular Egypt is? Me neither — until I discovered some very unscientific research from Australian statistician David Barry. In a recent blog post, Barry compared the rectangularness of all countries in the world and found that it doesn’t get any better than Egypt.
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The View Across The Ocean Is Not What You Think
Coastlines are ragged, messy things, twisting and turning every which way. As a result, what’s “directly across the ocean” from you depends on where you’re standing on a rather fine scale. It also depends on the curvature of the Earth.
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Celebrate GIS Day With These GIFs Of Australia’s Greatest Geographical Transformations
In case you didn’t already know — why didn’t you already know? — today is Geographical Information Systems Day, a day to celebrate the existence of services like Google Earth, Nearmap and other geographic science technologies that help architects, engineers, city planners and all kinds of businesses in the way they develop the world around…