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Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web alo...

I would read this subterranean horror novel

Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Thinking about this Mary Oliver poem this morning. Don't hesitate.

Location: Springhill community in SW Montana
30DayMapChallenge Theme: Data: My Data
Date the Data Last touched before today: 1994

#30dayMapChallenge
Revisiting my thesis data after 30+ years. The intersection of Percision ag, terrain and soil modeling. Happy to see the field is still (mostly) a field.

Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

For my Academic frieds and followers...

Traffic's original "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
*(11 min 44 sec)

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

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Geography is revolutionary ! See my book containing 100 discoveries, people, and approaches to understanding our world: www.amazon.com/Interpreting...

Backstage at #IMGIS

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Vince Guaraldi’s "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" is now #1 on the iTunes US song chart. A 1966 jazz classic shows Linus was right — the Great Pumpkin always delivers.

36 years ago today, the #LomaPrieta earthquake rocked Santa Cruz County and the SF Bay Area. There’s a twisted redwood grove near the epicenter at the Forest of Nisene Mark. #SanAndreasFault

Map of forest cover in Borneo created by The Nature Conservancy. More intact forest remains in Borneo vs. neighboring Malaysia, with the largest extent of remain gin forest in the interior or the island/country.

Cartography Guidelines for Global Conservation

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Map design at TNC is informed by the organization's style guide which harmonizes work between hundreds of cartographers and designers.

#nacis2025

Some sugegstions:
Carto (Demon)
Map Legend
North (Arrow)
Mercator
Ptolemy

Geologic map of California

Happy Geologic Map Day! The @cageosurvey.bsky.social
produces geologic maps at various scales & derivative maps showing important aspects of geologic hazards or resources. #EarthScienceWeek

Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

State Borders

xkcd.com/1902/

People who appreciate the intoxicating euphoria of reading from a real dictionary expertly hand-crafted by diligent human lexicographers.

Also. people who love the Oxford Comma more than some family members.

“There is no such thing as a natural disaster, just natural hazards that impact vulnerable communities and infrastructure,” Bohon said. “We can't stop natural hazards, but we can [decrease our vulnerability] reducing the possibility of a disaster." www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

A black and white illustration titled "Cascade Range Volcanoes," showing a 3 by 3 layout of the nine tallest peaks in the range. The art is done in a hachure sketch style.

A detail image of the illustration of Mount Rainier

A detail image from the poster of Mounts Hood and Jefferson.

New poster! Hachure illustrations of the highest Cascade Range volcanoes. This one took a lot of experimentation to get the layout right. If you or someone you know loves this area, check it out. www.etsy.com/listing/4373...

馬太鞍溪堰塞湖監測紀實 應變時間軸暨避難疏散準備作為

The Matai'an landslide dam in Taiwan has breached today in response to extreme rainfall from super typhoon Ragasa. There is a superlative storyboard (in Mandarin) that contains details, including images and video:-
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5864...

Since it’s the #equinox, time to re-post the best #dataviz I’ve ever done: 365 pictures of the Earth from space, taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. Details on the NASA Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...

A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

A map of the United States displaying how people heat their homes, with different heating sources represented by distinct colors. The map highlights regions where oil (dark purple), natural gas (light purple), propane (green), wood (orange), and electricity (yellow) are used for heating. The density of each color indicates the prevalence of a specific heating method in various areas, with the Northeastern and parts of the Midwest regions showing higher concentrations of oil and natural gas use.

Keeping it toasty coast to coast: How the US keeps the cold at bay
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Oh, look at that source. If it’s from the engineers, it must be true!

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A scatterplot depicts major characters from Lord of the Rings plotted by number of mentions in the books (x axis) and screen time in the films (y axis). A trendline reveals that Arwen, Theoden, Legolas & Aragon are over-represented in the movies. While Sam, Gimli, Denethor and others are under-represented.

Lord of the Rings characters: screen time vs mentions in the book.

The further from the dotted line, the further off trend.

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The David Rumsey Map Center is holding their biennial cartography conference 10/8 - 10/10. It’s free and there’s an online option. The theme is “Above and Below” and will feature talks on “cartography of anything but the earth’s surface.”Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-lawr...