Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict
This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...
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The Danube flows backwards: orbánisation spreads upstream
While the rise of populism has been a global phenomenon since 15 years, it has lately found particularly fertile ground in the lands of the former Danubian monarchy, Austria, Slovakia and Czech ...
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What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?
Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...
Farewell, Ruritania: Saying goodbye to Eastern Europe’s exotic aura
The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...
These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million
After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, ...