- Geo means Earth. The Earth is in the shape of a geoid. Therefore, the Earth is the shape of the Earth. Any questions?
- Steve Waterman created a new projection called the Waterman Polyhedron in 1996 and updated it in 2012 with new satellite imagery. He wrote a poem about the projection. Anyone who writes a poem about projections has a sufficient mixture of outright nerdiness combined with risky creativeness to deserve our attention.
- There’s a new book called The Revenge of Geography that calls for a new profession dubbed sociography. The assertion is that the physical landscape has shaped the course of human history and will continue to do so in the future. If his thesis is correct, and most certainly it does have at least some veracity, then people who can design maps and interpret maps will be a shoe-in for this sociography role.
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