A thread for cool\beautiful maps, charts, spectrosciencethingummys and stuff.

Secret Map of the Elders of Zion

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Madness, the first movement, opens with a wildly swarming mass of around 1,500 particles, emanating from the center of the screen and then careening outwards, bouncing off walls and reacting to the behavior of the mouse. Each particle represents a single feeling, posted by a single individual. The color of each particle corresponds to the tone of the feeling inside – happy positive feelings are bright yellow, sad negative feelings are dark blue, angry feelings are bright red, calm feelings are pale green, and so on.

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NASA moonwalks, to the scale of a football pitch:

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/a11vsfootball.gif?w=700

full size

from http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ which has many other strange and beautiful maps.

(correction, just the apollo 11 moonwalk)

Those are great. Thanks for the link.

http://www.bytelevel.com/map/images/ccTLD_600b.jpg

http://www.thegardengeeks.com/home/images/stories/hardiness_map607x302.jpg

Maps season starts tonight on bbc4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/beautyofmaps/index.shtml

"Map expert Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion"

seems to be a couple of series of things on:

Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession (3 parts) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s5m7w
The Beauty Of Maps (4 parts) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s2w83

cool imo. wish i could watch that

The series is all over t0rr3ntland if anyone is interested.

The all new 2010 California Earthquake Fault Map is here!

https://natgeoeducationblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mappingminute-doggerland-large.jpg
A record of the geological Brexit from the last glacial phase to the current Holocene one. I'm presuming places like Howick and Goldcliff were very important 16000 years ago!

Howick is here too

https://www.nextnature.net/2009/04/mapping-a-lost-world/

Funny, i only just heard of Doggerland through this

https://deadvoicesonair.bandcamp.com/album/doggerland

My favourite gif: the unification of Italy, 1829-1871 pic.twitter.com/qhoGKldJR7

— Naomi O'Leary (@NaomiOhReally) August 22, 2017

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e4/1d/7d/e41d7de1724252cd8228c796e2ad8b1a.jpg

my goto map for when I've just read some godawful metropolitan smug chattering cack in the graun and need to reign in my class hatred. You successfully gentrified SW Doggerland - now its all yours suckers!

Hurts like a cack in the graun

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY_IDkXX0AA5fbq.jpg:large

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_North_Caucasian_Emirate.svg/1200px-Flag_of_North_Caucasian_Emirate.svg.png

flag of the short lived North Caucasion Emirate :)

http://www.shifnal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/image2-392x280.jpg

lol no, not that, THIS:

The spread of dumplings in the late-ish Middle Ages. Look, people can agree on things. (from Rachel Laudan, Cuisine and Empire) pic.twitter.com/bRqeXKa1fL

— Yuliya Komska (@ykomska) January 5, 2020

https://i0.wp.com/seedtocrop.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/vegetables_history.jpg?w=1024&ssl=1

Last night:

Me: Got any homework?

Anna: Nah.

Me: Whatcha gonna do?

Anna: Have a map I’m working on.

Just found this on her desk. pic.twitter.com/9uulpX1Pve

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) February 12, 2020

https://cartographerswithoutborders.org/post/132149989593/my-plan-to-create-a-perfectly-flat-and-level

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYdjVVQX0AAPGIj?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbS4el1XgAAIUZo?format=jpg&name=large