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Where I'm Clicking Now: Global Electoral College
The Economist polled the world to find out who would win the US election if the result depended on a global electoral college. The results so far: Obama would win 9,103 votes to McCain's 163. The poll gives every country a minimum of three votes, and then allocates additional votes based on the proportion of the world's 6.5 billion voting population located in each country.
Voting by the Book: Amazon Maps US's Political Reading List
If our electoral map were as red as Amazon's map of our political book-buying habits, things would be looking up for John McCain. Yet while Americans are buying up conservative books, our electoral map is getting bluer and bluer each day.
I initially chalked up this discrepancy to how unscientific Amazon's map is.
The Atlas of the Real World Maps Out Demographic Importance
The Telegraph recently featured The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live, which uses software to illustrate countries around the world, not by their land size, but by their demographic rank on a range of subjects. The size of each country represents its land mass in proportion to that of the others.
The atlas depicts a whole assortment of topics — from tourist destinations, alcohol consumption, wealth in the year one versus wealth in 1990.
Does Your Personality Match Your State of Residence & Mind?
Think you can judge a person by the state they live in? It might not be such a crazy notion according to new research on the geography of personality. Controlling for factors like race, income, and education, the study profiled 600,000 Americans with a 44-question personality test that evaluates five traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness.
Where I'm Clicking Now: Find Your Last Name in the World!
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? If you search for her using the World Names Profiler map, apparently "Sandiego" is mostly found in France. I saved this little gem for the weekend because you'll want lots of time to play with it.
Top 10 Places We'll Show You That Google Can't!
Ah, Google Maps. That street view function that's captured so many a crazy scene has raised security, political, and privacy hackles the world over. From refugee camps to British swimming pools the program's reach is pervasive — so much so that this list of 51 places impervious from spying eyes grabbed my attention — and made me want to see what Google has to hide.
Blessed Be the Answer to the Soda vs. Pop Question in a Map!
Oh, answer from the heavens to the existential question that's plagued mankind since the dawn of liquid, what, oh what, in all that is holy-regional-specificity do we call that most bubbly of beverages? Oh, map of the ages, slake my thirst for knowledge!
So yeah.
Are 50 States Overrated? What If the US Only Had 38 States. . .
This would have made memorizing the capitals a whole lot easier. In 1973 a California geography professor proposed a redrawing of the states to limit them to 38, instead of the 50 we're used to. With names like Ozark, Cascade, and Alamo, the redrawing isn't just for fun, it's kind of a smart idea.
Where I'm Clicking Now: Prove Your Geographic Prowess!
Think you could still get an A in Geography class, no problem? Try your hand at this quiz. It's a drag-and-drop fill in the blank country map and it's deceptively challenging.
Where I'm Clicking Now: NYT Interactive Olympic Medal Maps
Oh maps, how I love thee. A little treasure trove of info at every glance — and these maps have treasure of the gold, silver, and bronze variety. The New York Times is breaking it down for the big Games with this interactive map that lets you search all the way back to 1896, to see which countries bagged the most hardware — the bigger the dot that represents the country, the more medals won.
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