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  • geography Welcome to Toad Suck. The weirdest town names in all 50 states Popkin
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  • Antarctica There are now five oceans on Earth, proclaims National Geographic David Pescovitz
  • border markers A Belgian farmer accidentally shrunk the country of France when he moved a stone blocking his tractor Carla Sinclair
  • happiness This is the happiest country in the world David Pescovitz
  • City Guesser Can you guess what city is the setting of a random street video? Miss Cellania
  • lighthouses are nice 5-minute documentary about nuclear-powered Soviet lighthouses Rob Beschizza
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  • refuse New Delhi's garbage mountain Rob Beschizza
  • place names What to call residents of each US state David Pescovitz
  • cartography Interactive map of public facial recognition systems in America Cory Doctorow
  • slavery After 150 years, Runaway Negro Creek finally has a new name David Pescovitz
  • great migration The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
  • gill v whitford "The efficiency gap": understanding the math behind a crucial Supreme Court gerrymandering case Cory Doctorow
  • geography Geographer makes maps that reveal river networks as veins Mark Frauenfelder
  • variety How many towns in the world have the same name as yours? Rob Beschizza
  • STEM Mechanical spinning globe that shows the night/day terminator Cory Doctorow
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