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Do you ever read an atlas for pleasure? If you go to a new city, can you imagine not knowing which way is north? Is it hard for you to imagine life without a map?
Then you might be a maphead, says trivia buff Ken Jennings.
Philadelphia rail map - 1972 (by rjwhite)
92y:
New York’s New Littles
Throughout June, the Brian Lehrer Show has been discussing and exploring “The New Littles” of New York City, “areas of ethnic concentration you may not know about or are changing quickly.” The show gathered data and mapped it.In conclusion, they asked local artists and illustrators to create maps of these new neighborhoods. “The response was incredible, full of talent, inventiveness and community spirit.” Here are 18 submissions.
At top is “New Littles” by Freecell: Lauren Crahan, John Hartmann, and Jacqueline Lavin. View it large here.
Learn more about the neighborhoods you live in with 92Y City Walks and Behind the Scenes tour.
A recent paper published in the Physical Review has some astonishing suggestions for the geographic future of financial markets. Its authors,Alexander Wissner-Grossl and Cameron Freer, discuss the spatial implications of speed-of-light trading. Trades now occur so rapidly, they explain, and in such fantastic quantity, that the speed of light itself presents limits to the efficiency of global computerized trading networks.
These limits are described as “light propagation delays.”
