~openculture | Bookmarks (5)
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When a Medieval Monk Crowdsourced the Most Accurate Map of the World, Creating “the Google Earth of the 1450s”
If we want to know the precise geographical location of, say, a particular church in Madrid,...
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6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871
A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal...
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A Web Site That Lets You Find Your Home Address on Pangea
A cool tool. Software engineer Ian Webster has created a website that lets you see how...
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Pangea to the Present to the Future: Watch Animations Showing 500 Million Years of Continental Drift
Things change… Especially when you’re tracking the continental movement from Pangea to the present day in...
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The Surprising Map of Plants: A New Animation Shows How All the Different Plants Relate to Each Other
Are pinecones related to pineapples? This was the unexpected question with which my wife confronted me...