Arthur D. Hlavaty

Dividing the USA into Us and Them [Big Think]

Thanx to Follow Me Here

Maps of minds

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

It is a well-known psychological fact that people tend to think that those far away from them are close to each other. When I started sending a zine out around the world, I had to deal with a feeling that I had a number of readers on the same block (Australia), with a few over across town in New Zealand. Some people have political maps where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neighbors.

Languages, as seen from the Netherlands

Megaregions (with nifty maps)

Thanx to andrewducker

Map design improved

Thanx to andrewducker

HarperCollins (part of the Murdoch empire) gets caught selling the Arabs maps of a Middle East without Israel.

Thanx to nancylebov

Pangea with political borders.