Typography/Topography An Earth-inspired typeface designed by Siyu Cao that creates shapes and letters from classic typographic map features. The two-dimensional forms are great, but the 3-D carvings really drive it to the mountaintop. I’ve seen a lot of Earth as Art projects, but never a typeface. Excellent work. Bonus: Check out some of my other favorite science-inspired typography here.
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Typography/Topography An Earth-inspired typeface designed by Siyu Cao that creates shapes and letters from classic typographic map features. The two-dimensional forms are great, but the 3-D carvings really drive it to the mountaintop. I’ve seen a lot of Earth as Art projects, but never a typeface. Excellent work. Bonus: Check out some of my other favorite science-inspired typography here.
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Typography/Topography

An Earth-inspired typeface designed by Siyu Cao that creates shapes and letters from classic typographic map features. The two-dimensional forms are great, but the 3-D carvings really drive it to the mountaintop.

I’ve seen a lot of Earth as Art projects, but never a typeface. Excellent work.

Bonus: Check out some of my other favorite science-inspired typography here.

mucholderthen: Topographical Map of the Moon centering on the south pole Colors represent altitude: purple (over 9,000 metres below surface level), blue (3,000 below), green (zero altitude), yellow (2,000 metres above surface level), orange (4,000 metres above) red (8,200 metres above). A massive impact crater known as South Pole - Aitken basin is seen here as the purple and dark blue patch just below the south pole and is 2,500 kilometers in diameter. Picture: SPL / Barcroft Media (via X ) You can’t begin to appreciate the violent history of the moon until you see it like this.
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Topographical Map of the Moon centering on the south pole

Colors represent altitude:

  • purple (over 9,000 metres below surface level),
  • blue (3,000 below),
  • green (zero altitude),
  • yellow (2,000 metres above surface level),
  • orange (4,000 metres above)
  • red (8,200 metres above).

A massive impact crater known as South Pole - Aitken basin is seen here as the purple and dark blue patch just below the south pole and is 2,500 kilometers in diameter.

Picture: SPL / Barcroft Media (via X )

You can’t begin to appreciate the violent history of the moon until you see it like this.

(via science-junkie)

Source: telegraph.co.uk

The Connected States of America Are our borders really the edges of our communities? The “internet guy” in me says “of course not” but that doesn’t really take into account how much of our day-to-day interaction takes place in geographical meatspace. But on the other hand, many of America’s state borders are very arbitrary delineations of latitude or since-bridged rivers, so how meaningful are they in 2013, really?  What would our borders and communities look like if we looked at other data, like phone calls? At Krulwich Wonders…, Robert Krulwich has taken a look at a couple of alternate “neighborhoods”. The photo above was assembled from anonymous mobile phone data by MIT’s Xiaoji Chen, and it which regions call each other the most often. Anyone who’s been to my neck of the woods in Austin knows that Texans don’t call people in Oklahoma much (or College Station, for that matter), and the NorCal/SoCal split shows that the differences there go beyond suntans and dotcoms. And people in the Plains apparently just want to call anyone they can that doesn’t live in the Plains. “What’s it like out there? Just grass here.” Check out the rest of Robert’s post for more phone fun, plus a little look at how (not) far our money travels (and what that says about us). (via NPR)
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The Connected States of America

Are our borders really the edges of our communities? The “internet guy” in me says “of course not” but that doesn’t really take into account how much of our day-to-day interaction takes place in geographical meatspace. But on the other hand, many of America’s state borders are very arbitrary delineations of latitude or since-bridged rivers, so how meaningful are they in 2013, really? 

What would our borders and communities look like if we looked at other data, like phone calls? At Krulwich Wonders…, Robert Krulwich has taken a look at a couple of alternate “neighborhoods”.

The photo above was assembled from anonymous mobile phone data by MIT’s Xiaoji Chen, and it which regions call each other the most often. Anyone who’s been to my neck of the woods in Austin knows that Texans don’t call people in Oklahoma much (or College Station, for that matter), and the NorCal/SoCal split shows that the differences there go beyond suntans and dotcoms. And people in the Plains apparently just want to call anyone they can that doesn’t live in the Plains.

“What’s it like out there? Just grass here.”

Check out the rest of Robert’s post for more phone fun, plus a little look at how (not) far our money travels (and what that says about us).

(via NPR)

Source: NPR

The continental U.S. overlaid on the Moon, for your daily dose of perspective. Whoa. Compare the size of the craters to our biggest cities! To take your dose of perspective to the next level, check out this video from Veritasium on just how far away the Moon is from the Earth (Hint: Much farther than most people think): (via io9)
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The continental U.S. overlaid on the Moon, for your daily dose of perspective. Whoa. Compare the size of the craters to our biggest cities!

To take your dose of perspective to the next level, check out this video from Veritasium on just how far away the Moon is from the Earth (Hint: Much farther than most people think):

(via io9)

Source: io9.com

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The West Wing breaks down what’s wrong with maps and why the Gals-Peters Projection is more accurate and less politically biased than the Mercator map we’ve been using for centuries.

Complement with maps as power and propaganda, 100 diagrams that changed the world, and some intentionally distorted maps that make political points.

(↬ Buzzfeed)

It’s pretty amazing to find out that the way you’ve been viewing the world your whole life is not at all how that world actually looks. Must-watch.

via discoverynews: Star Wars Saga Mapped Very cool, but wouldn’t it be better if you could find one big enough to actually read? :) Joe to the rescue! Check out a hi-res version here (Tatooine is in the bottom middle in case anyone cares). Of course, what good is a map without an index? Got ya covered there, too: Coordinates of all the places you’ll be looking for. Here’s a thought experiment for you: Is the Star Wars galaxy oddly small or does it have an unusually high density of habitable, life-harboring planets? This may or may not relate to an upcoming episode of the YouTube show.
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Star Wars Saga Mapped

Very cool, but wouldn’t it be better if you could find one big enough to actually read? :)

Joe to the rescue! Check out a hi-res version here (Tatooine is in the bottom middle in case anyone cares). Of course, what good is a map without an index? Got ya covered there, too: Coordinates of all the places you’ll be looking for.

Here’s a thought experiment for you: Is the Star Wars galaxy oddly small or does it have an unusually high density of habitable, life-harboring planets? This may or may not relate to an upcoming episode of the YouTube show.

Source: sunfoundation