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Infographic Of The Day: How River Names Reveal Our Cultural Roots

Derek Watkins plots the many synonyms for “stream” on a map of the United States to illustrate the huge impact of cultural factors on how we label the natural world. See more

(via humanscalecities)

  11:16 am  |   August 31 2011   |  51 notes  

  8:18 pm  |   July 20 2010   |  36 notes  

Mapping out the travels and iterations of Faust, Pygmalion, Oedipus, and Leviathan.

High-res = this.

(h/t strange maps.)

  8:25 pm  |   March 22 2010   |  20 notes  

via “Straw Dogs.”

  4:21 pm  |   January 2 2010