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The I-95 corridor, economy-wise, is basically Germany (oh, and the United States is now essentially 12 mega-regions)

Peter Hamby, from CNN, was one of my college roommates; we were talking a while back and he told me that sometimes, as he travels around America on political stories, he thinks it’s just a mix of large cities and… Continue Reading

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Here’s a map of all the mass shootings in America, 1982-2013

You can’t extrapolate much from the clustered locations, just because they tend to be the same areas with higher populations (NorCal, SoCal, NE Corridor, Houston-Dallas). There’s a good deal more info here courtesy of Mother Jones, and there’s additional context and… Continue Reading

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The geographic center of the eight teams remaining in the NBA/NHL Playoffs is Millersville, Missouri (ya know, in case you wanted to know)

When you get older and your friends start living in different parts of the country relative to work/family/etc., you sometimes hop on GeoMidpoint to figure out the best place for a group to meet up (news flash: if you put six… Continue Reading

How much of the world is currently unmapped?

Cool story on CNN about some new species being discovered — including an amazing end to the first paragraph where they describe “a frog that makes love in the rain” — on the northern tip of Queensland, Australia. The species were… Continue Reading