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About Those Viral Maps Supposedly Comparing US vs. Europe Passenger Train Lines
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn part, that is why that map has considerably more lines compared to the U.S.'s. In other words, a...
What is the biggest fire to burn in the US? The answer requires a journey through history.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoUS fires and smoke See the latest fires in this interactive map The value in understanding fire...
What’s The Longest Walkable Route On Earth?
IFLScience· 18 hours agoSetting off from L'Agulhas in South Africa, your route will take you from the southernmost point on the African continent to Magadan in the far northeast...
The value of timetables - Trains
Trains.com· 20 hours agoFrom their inception in 1971 and 1978 respectively, both of North America’s passenger rail operators, Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada, published system...
Reassessing data quality underlying the recently updated floristic map of the world - Nature...
Nature· 2 days agoGenerating maps of floristic and faunistic regions based on native distributions of organisms is an important task in biogeography1,2. When reassessing the data used in their study, I found ...
Old video falsely shared as North American solar eclipse in 2024
AFP via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAs a rare total solar eclipse swept across North America in April 2024, social media was awash with...
Where Americans are traveling in 2024: by the numbers
Boston Herald· 15 hours agoIn every month of 2024 so far, more Americans left the country than last year and 2019. Nearly half...
75,000 years of Australian geography mapped to show arrival path of first people
Cosmos· 5 days agoIt turns out these first people to arrive via entry points at West Papua and the Timor Sea more than...
Sex and computers: post-war Germany’s strange affair with Krautrock
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFrom rock ’n’ roll to jazz, blues and grunge, musical movements have often been born out of human...
How crises reshaped the world financial system
The Economist· 20 hours agoWriting wistfully in 1919, John Maynard Keynes reflected on how the first world war had brought the first great age of financial globalisation to a crashing end. This ability to share “without ...
