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The Global Atlas of Human Sewage

Scientists from the University of California and Columbia University have released a new interactive map which visualizes the impact of human sewage on the world's coastlines. It is fairly well known that nitrogen from agricultural run-off (from fertilizers and livestock waste) contribute to harmful algae blooms which effect the amount of oxygen in rivers and along coastlines. This run-off is

How Big is Your CO2 Footprint?

CO2 is one of the biggest causes of global heating. Calculating our own individual CO2 output is very difficult, chiefly because a lot of our personal contributions to climate change come from our purchasing and consumption decisions - where the CO2 costs are largely hidden. However it is much easier to calculate our personal CO2 output from our transportation decisions.Cars (and other

How to Rig an Election

The Guardian newspaper has released a story map which visualizes & explains how the Republican Party is attempting to rig elections across the United States. Ten years ago the Republican Party launched its Project REDMAP initiative in an attempt to undermine American democracy. This plan involves taking control of state legislatures and then gerrymandering electoral districts in order to weaken

True Crime Whodunit Maps

Reading's Rabble Theatre has created an interactive whodunit map game based on a real-life murder case. Who Killed Alfred Oliver? is a whodunit mystery which requires you to use a 1929 map of Reading in order to discover the killer of a tobacconist on Cross Street. The game is actually based on a real-life event in which Alfred Oliver was bludgeoned to death in his own tobacconist shop.Using the

Lest We Forget

On the the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the First World War came to an end. Armistice Day is now commemorated every year on the 11th November to mark the signing of peace between the Allies and Germany. This armistice brought to an end a conflict in which it is estimated that over 21 million people died.  It is hard to conceive now the sheer enormity of the

Genealogy Mapping

It has been the Clarke family mission for the last 150 years to spread the 'Clarke' name across the length and breadth of this green & pleasant land. As you can tell from the map above it is a mission with which we have spectacularly failed.   In the 1850s the surname 'Clarke' was largely concentrated in London, the Midlands and the North West of the UK. In 2016 the 'Clarke' family name was

Daylight Saving Gripes

In the United States Daylight Saving ended last Sunday. Obviously you don't need a map to tell you that putting the clocks back by one hour every Fall is a despicable & sadistic form of torture. However if you want to really complain about the clock's changing you should refer to Andy Woodruff's Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool. The actual number of hours of daylight remain the same