Ryan C Briggs
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09.12.2009
A map of instances of malaria in the United States in 1870. In some places, it apparently accounted for 1 in 7 deaths. America was also hit by some brutal yellow fever outbreaks, but somehow managed to do pretty well over the ensuing hundred years. Let’s say it together everyone, geography is not destiny. via Boing Boing, originally on iayork.com

A map of instances of malaria in the United States in 1870. In some places, it apparently accounted for 1 in 7 deaths. America was also hit by some brutal yellow fever outbreaks, but somehow managed to do pretty well over the ensuing hundred years. Let’s say it together everyone, geography is not destiny.

via Boing Boing, originally on iayork.com
20.09.2009
Lee at Roving Bandit (probably the best economics blog in Southern Sudan) pointed me to this wonderful heat map of population density in Africa. Click the picture to see maps from other decades going back to 1960.

Lee at Roving Bandit (probably the best economics blog in Southern Sudan) pointed me to this wonderful heat map of population density in Africa. Click the picture to see maps from other decades going back to 1960.
15.08.2009
I went to  DC’s Eastern Market today and stumbled upon this map of Africa from 1875 (just a few years before the scramble). I don’t know much about it, other than the date and that it was printed in the US (at the bottom the longitude is given relative to Washington) by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. Sorry that the scan is blurry on the sides, my little all-in-one scanner can’t fit the page and I don’t want to bend it. Click the map for a larger version.

I went to  DC’s Eastern Market today and stumbled upon this map of Africa from 1875 (just a few years before the scramble). I don’t know much about it, other than the date and that it was printed in the US (at the bottom the longitude is given relative to Washington) by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. Sorry that the scan is blurry on the sides, my little all-in-one scanner can’t fit the page and I don’t want to bend it.

Click the map for a larger version.
15.07.2009

“Yet a man who uses an imaginary map, thinking that it is a true one, is likely to be worse off than someone with no map at all; for he will fail to inquire whenever he can, to observe every detail on his way, and to search continuously with all this senses and all his intelligence for indications of where he should go.”

&mdash E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful.