"No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end."
One of things I love most about maps is for every place I look at on a map I know it exists in real life. There are people walking down the street I am looking at. There are babies being born and people being married between the lines drawn on the map. And when I am looking at a map of the area that I’m in, I can almost see myself on the map waving up at me in the real world. The places on maps match stylistically but at the same time every place is different. Just like the fact that we’re all human and yet are all different. Maps comfort me and awe me all at the same time.
This map hits me hard though. Just state lines running through dark territory. Is there something there? Who lives here? Are we who live between those lines in the real world all the same? No, but we’re all humans so we’re not all that different.
I’ve never felt the ache of connectedness with humanity like I do when I read this map.
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A familiar sight of the seemingly infinite
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio assembled this remarkable animation of the surface currents of our oceans. It’s called Perpetual Ocean, and the full work is 20 minutes of HD video, assembled from a huge amount of satellite, on location, and computational data generated by ECCO2 (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase 2). ECCO2 itself exists to better understand our oceans and their role in the changing global climate.
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n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep…
50 life ruiners → Matt Smith
He’s wearing stripes. Not fair.
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I cannot get enough of these!
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