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Here be dragons, beyond the known world
Maps tell us about places that exist, but every so often they also give free rein to imagination and fantasy, bringing us stories of monsters, lions…
Sep 12
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Atlantropa, a plan to connect Europe and Africa
Herman Sörgel's grand project to drain part of the Mediterranean and flood part of the Sahara to “unite” Europe and Africa.
Sep 6
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Miguel García Álvarez
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August 2025
Exploring the ocean floor
How humans discovered the ocean floor, surveyed it and managed to represent it on wonderful maps.
Aug 29
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Miguel García Álvarez
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The “correct” map
The Mercator map creates distortions. Just like the Peters map and any map with any projection on a plane. This is the story of the correct map, the map…
Aug 24
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Miguel García Álvarez
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How the prehistoric coastline influences US elections
From geological times and throughout part of US history, we explore how it still influences elections in the South today.
Aug 15
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Holidays and the Olympics in Nazi Germany
A journey through the whitewashing of Nazi Germany, promoting tourism and organising the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Aug 7
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Miguel García Álvarez
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July 2025
Three maps to understand the Internet
The Internet came to revolutionise our lives, and these three maps show how it has managed to connect us all.
Jul 31
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Miguel García Álvarez
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The discovery and conquest of Antarctica
The south was unknown for centuries. Many cartographers imagined it, and many explorers tried to prove its existence… until Antarctica appeared.
Jul 24
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Miguel García Álvarez
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The true size of countries
Cartographic projections distort countries, which can lead us to believe that some countries are larger or smaller than others. Sometimes, this is not…
Jul 19
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Kadesh: history is written by the victors
A journey through one of the best-documented battles of antiquity. With special attention to historiography and how this battle is one of the best…
Jul 11
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Cartographic projections: deforming the Earth to represent it
The history of a compromise that was created to resolve an unsolvable geometry problem. The virtues and shortcomings of some of the most iconic map…
Jul 5
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Miguel García Álvarez
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June 2025
A history of relations between Iran and the West
From the Great Game to coups. How the ambitions of the West and Russia repeatedly put Iran's sovereignty in check.
Jun 26
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Miguel García Álvarez
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