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Cartographers of North Korea :: 북한의 지도 제작자 An analysis of the OpenStreetMap data in North Korea: Who are the contributors?

The Cartographers of North Korea cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so I really liked the analysis of and the ability to explore people's responses to the question of why they mapped on OSM here

On Sept 4, 2025, an Ebola outbreak was declared in Kasai, DRC.

MSF & our regional hub in Eastern and Southern Africa is mapping four health zones: Bulape, Mweka, Mushenge & Kakenge to support the response.

👉 Let’s map: bit.ly/488mnwU

ℹ️ More information on the wiki: bit.ly/46h2LnN

Bears Will Be Boys A data analysis of animal gender in children’s books

Why are frogs he/him? Bears Will Be Boys from Pudding, analysing anthropomorphic animals in children's books pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

@greenbeltfestival.bsky.social it came...sorry

@greenbeltfestival.bsky.social hi, do you know of there are any issues with the bus shuttles? We've been waiting at Kettering for a long time

When I first studied statistics in high school, it appeared to me not as a revelation, but as a jumble of bizarre formulas that defied explanation. I could not for the life of me make sense of it. The calculations were mechanical and joyless. Compared to the elegance of physics, these equations felt unappealing, artificial, and just plain wrong. There was no reasoning to follow, only rules to memorize. I decided with absolute finality: statistics was not for me.

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/kareemca...

Italy detains human rights monitoring aircraft! For the first time, we have been denied permission to fly for 20 days with immediate effect. This marks a new escalation in the Italian government’s fight against civilian human rights observation in the Mediterranean!

Amazing. Now I'm going to have to go wandering around Isleworth to see where this is from 😂

Nia Òla recently spoke about how the "relentless pursuit of frictionless existence" is making us less human. This is such a clarifying way of putting it, she's a great educator.

This sounds intriguing! Have you read The End We Start From by Megan Hunter? It's not hugely sci-fi, apart from being set in the near future, but it is very entwined with motherhood.

A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoods

Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A map of the counties of the UK that are coloured according to where I have lived, stayed, visited, stopped in, passed by, or white for never visited. The south of England is well covered, there's a line of coloured counties heading north towards Scotland. The midlands and Scotland have the most white counties

I'm honestly surprised I've stayed in so many places. Camping and conferences help... smstone0.github.io#/uk-map

#Gaza: “When I grow up, I want to be a doctor like my mum.”
This is the wish of Deema, a girl from Beit Lahia, who for 18 months has been living with her family in a tent pitched in the rubble of their former home.

Spring rainfall charts 2025

April 2025 Hydrological Summary
nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
#weather #climate #environment

A potted plant sits on a low wooden table in the middle of a room. The purple stems tumble out of the yellow pot and variegated purple and pink leaves alternate along the stems and peak and standout. The plant and soil are made of wool but twist and rest fairly naturally like a real plant.

I crocheted a hose plant for our dark flat. Tradescantia zebrina (wool variety). It was a different but fun project to work on.

"Intrepid testudine" has to be the best @secondmentions.bsky.social I've seen in a long time 🤣

The focal point is a sculpture of a woman sleeping in the ground, half of her above ground and hinting at the rest still part of the earth. Her hair is fresh, bright green plants spiking up. Her body is clothed in ivy hugging her body. Her exposed face and arm are mud coloured, her eyes are closed.

The Mud Maid sleeps on, resting half on the earth, half in it. I liked seeing her a lot. And there was a little robin waiting for scraps hopping around. Artists are Sue Hill and Pete Hill. And all the plants too:)

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean

March 22 is #WorldWaterDay & an apt birthday for Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚒️ 🧵#histsci

Bicycles Built Based on People's Attempts to Draw Them From Memory In 2009 designer Gianluca Gimini started asking friends and strangers to draw a men's bicycle from memory. While some got …

This is great: designer Gianluca Gimini started asking friends and strangers to draw a men’s bicycle from memory www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/b...

I'm currently doing some mapping of Tajikistan (Missing Maps/OpenStreetMaps) so it's fun to learn some other things about the country as well

Bare trees, and snowdrops carpetting the ground so thickly that they do really look like snow

I'm rubbish at taking photos of snowdrops (and bluebells) but sometimes you don't need to be good. These incredible snowdrops are only part of the banquet at Welford Park, Newbury #Berkshire

#BloomScrolling ##ThickTrunkThursday

Hand holding a spiky, clear, cellular model of a radiolarian with two spherical lobes and two concentric layers. Shadows from the complex skeleton blanket my hand

Here’s the radiolarian model after removing the supports #sciart #3dprinting

My first insect of 2025 was this hibernating Wasp (probably Vespula vulgaris but didn't want to disturb her to check). Snoozing in a closing down Homebase, I suspect she will get a rude awakening before spring. Day 4 of #RecordEveryDayJanuary.

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens: Eleanor Morland, Gertude Cope and Alice Hutchings. Photographed in 1896. Courtesy of @wikivictorian.bsky.social

Flowers For Rosa - Lux Magazine Rosa Luxemburg found freedom pressing flowers in prison

In 2009 Rosa Luxemburg's prison herbarium was discovered in a box 🤯 She pressed flowers from her prison(s) but also ones people sent her and was a botanist as well as a revolutionary. Such an interesting article: lux-magazine.com/article/flow...

Upper and lower embroidered borders show a frieze of dinosaurs, purple, yellow, green, and black (there are two yellow dinosaurs, their tails intertwined in a kind of lovers' knot). In between we see a Victorian lady and gentleman standing on a pier, looking at a huge steam ship in the sea. The caption is Ludvig Nobel Conceived the Oil Tanker too.

Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com

Swearing and frustration versus dexterity levels of surgeons and other UK medical staff by way of a text filled bar chart from BMJ

Brilliant funny text based bar chart from @bmj.com - swearing and frustration versus dexterity among surgeons and different levels of UK medical staff

Here’s the full article (hat tip @puntofisso.bsky.social and his awesome weekly Quantum of Solazzo data newsletter)

www.bmj.com/content/387/...