Sunshine or sunlight is essential to life on Earth. Sure a small subset of organisms thrive in places that sunshine never reaches, but most are at least indirectly dependent on solar energy. Whether they live in ever-dark caves or in the depths of the oceans most food chains can be… Read more“Map Monday, Where to go for sunshine”
Category: Maps
Map Monday, Country of origin for US immigrants
America is a land of immigrants. Everyone in the United States can trace their origins to another land. Even Native Americans aren’t true natives of the continent. To be fair recent research suggests their ancestors arrived in western Alaska as early as 32,000 years ago. Newcomers continued to arrive for… Read more“Map Monday, Country of origin for US immigrants”
Map Monday, Alternate Maps of the US & North America
People have always been fascinated by alternate realities, what ifs, and their hypothetical repercussions. Whether it’s as mundane as what if Billy Buckner hadn’t booted that ball in the 10th or as complicated (and unlikely) as the Confederacy winning the US Civil War. There seems to be an endless appetite… Read more“Map Monday, Alternate Maps of the US & North America”