Massive Underwater Landslide

Storegga Slide

A 200-mile chunk of the continental shelf the size of Iceland collapsed in 8,200 BC creating a massive tsunami.It was so powerful it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.

Animated

BBC Video

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Open Railway Map

The open online map of the worldwide railroad infrastructure.

Another brilliant interactive map built by a dedicated community of volunteers.

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Interactive Map: Undocumented, Unaccompanied, and Underage...

An interactive look at the factors driving the influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America, and the risks faced en route to the U.S.

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(scroll down to interact with map)

Very detailed and tragically informative…

Judgmental Maps (Funny)

A fearlessly opinionated project, these maps provide alternative names for neighborhoods that reflect their makers' biased views. They are frequently hilarious, sometimes almost fully wrong, and more often than not gloriously profane.

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The Health Benefits of Trees

Air Pollution Removal by Trees

 

It is becoming increasingly clear that trees help people live longer, healthier, happier lives—to the tune of $6.8 billion in averted health costs annually in the U.S., according to research published this week. And we're only beginning to understand the nature and magnitude of their tree-benevolence.

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The Victory Of Design Over Data

Apple's Partnership With IBM Is About The Victory Of Design Over Data

"...it points to a critical juncture in the history of computing. 

Design has become more important than data."

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IBM clearly has design in its DNA, but it is Apple that has mastered the art of making solutions “transparent” to users.

Developers and designers play an increasingly important role in enterprise computing because the design of specific applications is what makes computation accessible to users. Big data is a big nothing if you don’t know what to do with it.

This is the role of design, and this is why IBM has hitched its wagon to Apple. Apple does not own good design, of course, but it has incorporated the design sensibility deeper into its DNA for longer than any other company in the digital universe. As such, it is in a position to now use design to help unlock the value in the big data that companies like IBM have been working to accumulate. If design wins, data wins too."

What if state boundaries were based on watersheds?

This is an interesting perspective! Be sure to read the article as it details John Wesley Powell’s brilliant 1879 proposal to create new Western States based on watersheds, rather than arbitrary political boundaries.

The Flicker site has the maps >

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