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The World’s Largest Natural Mirror

March 7th, 2008 by OddO

Imagine a nearly perfect mirror surface spread across the Earth stretching out miles in every direction. Sounds like something right out of Alice’s Wonderland but Salar de Uyuni is very very real. When covered with a thin sheet of water, this 4,000+ square-mile salt flat creates a stunning reflection of everything above it.

Over 40,000 years […]

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Seven Offbeat Approaches to Mapping the World (Past, Present and Future)

January 17th, 2008 by OddO

Ever wonder what the world really looks like through someone else’s eyes? Representations of the planet have changed with the times as have the people who made them. These are just a few strange, innovative and/or humorous examples past, present and future.

Cartograms such as those above are a way to represent statistical information in visual […]

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