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Hi, I'm Frank. I collect Strange Maps

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Joined January 2009
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The three extremities of the EU triangle are also its emptiest corners. More here: shorturl.at/XUQXu
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#StrangeMaps #1304 - A medieval map mystery may finally be solved. bigthink.com/strange-maps/an…
A medieval map mystery may finally be solved

A medieval map mystery may finally be solved

Portolan charts were too accurate to be medieval — so who made them? A Croatian professor finds evidence for sources in antiquity.

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#StrangeMaps #1303 - Mapped: Every known (and suspected) road in the Roman Empire. bigthink.com/strange-maps/ro…
Mapped: Every known (and suspected) road in the Roman Empire

Mapped: Every known (and suspected) road in the Roman Empire

A new digital atlas increases the Roman road network by 60% — and it changes how we think of the Empire.

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What do the Star Wars planet of Tatooine and the Belgian village of Gingelom have in common? They're both French synonyms for the 'Middle of Nowhere'. tinyurl.com/y4czf3zn
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Are these world literature's 100 most essential novels? Of course not, but arguing which are and which aren't is half the fun of this scratch-off poster. The other half is scratching off the ones you have read. Gotta read 'em all? bigthink.com/books/100-essen…
Scratching the surface: A field guide to 100 essential novels

Scratching the surface: A field guide to 100 essential novels

In our age of screens and shrinking attention spans, let this analog challenge be your progress bar toward literary beauty and joy.

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#StrangeMaps #1302 - How to restore your online sanity, one random webcam at a time. bigthink.com/strange-maps/we…
How to restore your online sanity, one webcam at a time

How to restore your online sanity, one webcam at a time

The world webcam map, a defunct format from Web 1.0, is back — as a foil to today’s algorithmic internet.

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While national borders have proven stickier than Europe’s most ambitious integrationists would have wished, the EU has given rise to regional concepts and realities that transcend the member states. Like this bunch of bananas. For more: shorturl.at/yNcXw
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A lot of the New World is named after the Old World - here’s an interesting sample with some of the most famous instances, showing the location of the ‘new’ and ‘old’ toponyms next to each other. For more, go to shorturl.at/ZQ0GN
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Does that supplement you’re taking actually benefit your health? For some, the evidence is strong. For many others, not so much. Here’s a quick and easy way to find out what’s been proven to help, and what hasn’t. More here: shorturl.at/4aeTS
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The Oxfordshire village of Piddington has just declared its independence from the UK. Don't expect this mini-Brexit to have any real consequences, though. tinyurl.com/32p7env8
🤖 Made with AI
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#StrangeMaps #1301 - The fungal network is virtually invisible to the naked eye, but weighs about five times as much as all humans alive today. bigthink.com/strange-maps/fu…
Scientists map massive layer of life just beneath our feet

Scientists map massive layer of life just beneath our feet

Until recently, nobody had visualized the fungal "Wood Wide Web."

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#StrangeMaps #1300 - To slightly misquote Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "And that, my liege, is why the Earth is potato-shaped". bigthink.com/strange-maps/na…
NASA image shows Earth's lumpiness — exaggerated 10,000 times

NASA image shows Earth's lumpiness — exaggerated 10,000 times

NASA released a new 3D visualization of the geoid — a model of our lumpy Earth that shows what the ocean surface would look like if uninterrupted and sculpted only by gravity.

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#StrangeMaps #1299 - On a world map of lightning strikes, the world’s busiest sea routes glowed bright — until ships cleaned up their act. bigthink.com/strange-maps/su…
Ends with a bang: Why lightning stopped stalking the Strait of Malacca

Ends with a bang: Why lightning stopped stalking the Strait of Malacca

On a world map of lightning strikes, the world’s busiest sea routes glowed bright — until ships cleaned up their act.

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#StrangeMaps #1298 - Artificial night light is a surprisingly accurate tool for mapping GDP, poverty, urban sprawl, and even illegal fishing. bigthink.com/strange-maps/ni…
How Earth's night lights became our most honest economist

How Earth's night lights became our most honest economist

A Cold War accident became a reliable tool for using artificial lights at night to map GDP, poverty, urban sprawl, and even illegal fishing.

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Crewed spaceflight is 65 years old. This map brings it all together. bigthink.com/strange-maps/ev…
Every single crewed mission to space — on one definitive map

Every single crewed mission to space — on one definitive map

Big Think’s latest poster is a detailed look at humanity’s loftiest enterprise so far: making it off-planet.

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Do you call it "cherry knocking", "thunder and lightning", "knock down ginger", or something else? More here: l1nk.dev/CqwBB8s
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The combined habitats of the six birds chosen for the redesigned euro banknotes cover all eurozone countries but one – Finland. Finns are right to feel excluded. But there is a solution. l1nk.dev/8fbk4z0
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See America through the masterpieces of some of her greatest writers. bigthink.com/strange-maps/am…
American literature, charted in one monumental map

American literature, charted in one monumental map

From Stephen King’s Maine to Steinbeck’s California, Big Think's “A Literary Map of the United States” charts the stories that changed how we see a nation.

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#StrangeMaps #1297 - A brief reminder of the folly of war (Korea edition) - bigthink.com/strange-maps/a-…
A brief reminder of the folly of war (Korea edition)

A brief reminder of the folly of war (Korea edition)

Neither a victory nor a defeat, the Korean War lingers in a stalemate that remains unresolved.

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Online is silver, print is golden. Get the latest Strange Maps article on paper! More here: tinyurl.com/mr2hw6bk @bigthink
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