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Match Mythical Creatures With Real Marine Life
Match mythical creatures with real marine life.
Search & Rescue Kids
Using maps to find lost people
Tim Wallace Cartographer
Tim Wallace is a modern-day cartographer. In other words, he spends his days creating maps. To prepare for that career, Wallace earned a PhD in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While earning his degree, Wallace worked at The New York Times, where he created thousands of maps on a wide variety of topics. These included the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Houston in 2017; the territory controlled by terrorist group ISIS; and the results of elections. He recently started a new job as geographer and visual journalist at Descartes Labs, a company that collects data from different sources to help people and businesses better understand the planet.
Multicolored Maps
Maps of the United States often show the states in different colors. In general, mapmakers use enough colors to make sure states that touch are never the same color.
Urban Geocaching
Treasure Right Under Your Nose
Nathalie Miebach - Data Artist
“Artists can help us look at data differently and find alternative ways of thinking about it.”
Carrie C. Wall
Marine Scientist, Ocean Data Expert, Little Sister.
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ
Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced SHU-tez-caat) Martinez is a 16-year-old with big hopes for the Earth’s future. Since he was 6, he has dedicated his life to the fight for global environmental health. By age 13, he had received a presidential award for his work and was selected as one of the leading youth changemakers by the Campaign for a Presidential Youth Council. Xiuhtezcatl, whose name means “Turquoise Mirror,” has brought together youth from around the world to act as warriors defending our planet.
Berry Thirsty
On a virtual farm, would you grow strawberries or raspberries?
Fasten Your Seat Belt
What if We Treated Melting Ice Like Other Possible Catastrophes?
Planet Search
Math helps us chart the universe.
What's In A (Dog's) Name?
SOME SHELTERS ARE RETHINKING BREED LABELS.
The Motion Of The Heart
WILLIAM HARVEY’S RADICAL THEORY OF CIRCULATION
Should Blood Tests Be Part Of A Healthy Person's Routine?
IT’S A TYPICAL morning: you wake up, take a shower, brush your teeth, and then prick your arm with a tiny needle.
The Old-Fashioned Dream Lab
How Did Scientists Without Modern Technology Study the Dreaming Mind?
What Do Animals Dream About?
Peek Inside the Minds of Sleeping Animals.
Dreams Gone Bad
The Truth Behind Midnight Hauntings.
Consolidating Dad
The dream machine makes me uncomfortable.
Guess What I'm Thinking
Telepathy May Transform From Parlor Trick to the Real Deal.
Brain Chains
Will Actual Mind Melding Make the World Smarter—or Scarier?
Are Non-Digital Toys Doomed?
ONCE UPON a time, toys didn’t whirr or flash. they didn’t connect to the cloud or unlock special content.
Emergency
An image: the workings of a municipal well pump facility, rows of machines looming inactive, gummed up with the white material clogging pistons and leaking glutinously from seams.
Swarm Rules
With the right rules, robot swarms can accomplish things that are too dangerous —or just too boring—for humans.
What Matters Most On A Social Network, Quality Or Quantity?
What Matters Most On A Social Network, Quality Or Quantity?
New Maps In A Warner World
The Sea Is Rising, and Familiar Coastlines Won’t Look the Same When You’re Your Parents’ Age.
Kelila Jaffe
NUTRITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGIST AND PROFESSIONAL CHEF.
Overturning Old Age
HAVE SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH?
Beastly Blahs
How To Add Spice To A Bored Zoo Animal’s Life
How Glaciers Give Us A Picture Of Past Climates
How glaciers give us a picture of past climates
Blown Away
How Big Data Speeds Disaster Response.