Mapping the Northern Sky(maps.com)

32 points by tmseidman 3 days ago | 10 comments

Maps.com article featuring Florian Winkler's star map of the stars, Messier objects, and constellations of the Northern Hemisphere sky.

Maps distort how we see the world(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

599 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 291 comments

A Tomas Pueyo Uncharted Territories newsletter post presenting 30 maps showing how map projections distort perceived country sizes, especially near the equator.

Is map-reading a lost art? In era of GPS, here's what map fans say we're losing(cbc.ca)

36 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 36 comments

Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests(macrumors.com)

45 points by mgh2 3 years ago | 50 comments

Oldest Pyramid Found Not in Egypt or Americas, but in Indonesia(atlasobscura.com)

36 points by bcaulfield 3 years ago | 32 comments

JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet(smithsonianmag.com)

319 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 138 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on the James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet discovery via direct imaging, made by blocking the host star's glare.

Visualizing World War II(nathangoldwag.wordpress.com)

410 points by gaws 1 year ago | 85 comments

A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.

Map of GitHub(github.com)

651 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 100 comments

GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone(ssoready.com)

1051 points by noleary 2 years ago | 424 comments

SSOReady engineering blog post explaining a conceptual model of timezones by examining the weirdest ones, such as Australia/Lord_Howe's 30-minute DST shift.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

Weather forecasts have become more accurate(ourworldindata.org)

332 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 178 comments

Our World in Data article by Hannah Ritchie on how weather forecasts have grown more accurate and the need to make them available globally.