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Two Rivers in Asia

Travel, geopolitics, and water—this post is a review of two books that sit at the convergence of several of my interests. It can also be seen as the inland accompaniment to this post covering coastal areas in the same general region. The River at the Centre of the World:

Map

Cartography in the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia is one of my favourite children's series. Every good fantasy novel is incomplete without a map. While the Narnia books include some maps, they tend to focus on the area where each book is set; there is a comprehensive map in the back of some editions,

History

The Left Bank of the Rhine

This post contains a review of Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country by Simon Winder, along with a bit of programming practice I did recently. Lotharingia is a history/travel book about the swath of Europe where French and Germanic cultural regions come into contact—and frequently, over

Bible

St. Paul

I intended to have this post written shortly after Easter, but April has been a really busy month so far (and looks to continue as such) so I didn't get to it until now. Next post, I plan to return to my series on Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. Recently

Links

Assorted Links (Spring 2018)

I decided to take a break from my programming series this week (and probably next week too). Like back in the fall, I've got some links saved up that are related to things I've written, or that I just found really interesting. Although I've been trying to learn some other

Art

Artistic River Map

I got a new art print from Etsy and wanted to show it off in this post. This print is a map composed solely of rivers. Rivers, maps, and fractals are some of my favourite things, so I really like how it has some fractal characteristics (here's another art print

Board Games

Storytelling Outside the Box

This post comprises a board game review and an interactive map I made, joined by the common theme of non-traditional storytelling. Rogues to Riches is a story-telling board game, created by Sam Fraser in Halifax. I backed it on Kickstarter a few years ago, but only got the print-and-play version;

Water

Arctic Salinity

This post is an informational .gif that I put together about annual variability in the salinity of the Arctic Ocean (and North Atlantic/Pacific). As I noted in a recent book review, I've read a number of books about the sea this year. This post is an effort to understand

New Brunswick

Top Ten Things to do in Fredericton

This weekend I had a good time taking in some of the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival so it seemed like a good time to celebrate my hometown with this Top Ten list. Take a day trip: Putting this first is not to diminish anything there is to do in

Movies & TV

A story that wouldn't have been possible a decade ago

This post is about a very unique movie trailer. A new movie called Lion comes out today. It stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman. I heard about it from my girlfriend and it looks like it might be really good. Here is the [conventional] trailer: However, what I actually

General

One Week Later

My apologies for not having a post last week. My job is very busy these days, and on top of that I was on the road last week. I've got some good ideas to write about before the end of the year—hopefully I can find the time. This week's

Map

Mapping Hyla Park

Hyla Park is a little-known park in Fredericton. I had the idea that more people might use it if there was a map available, so I decided to make one. Hyla Park is the result of a private land conservation effort by the Nature Trust of New Brunswick. It is

History

The Americas Before 1492

This post took a couple of weeks to research and put together. I hope it was worth the wait. It is a review of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. Well, it's not so much a review as it is a further exploration of

R

A Minimalist Map of the US Interstate System

Since I've been travelling in the United States quite a bit recently (for business), I thought it would be useful to learn a bit more about the interstate highway system, specifically how the numbering scheme works. It's actually very well-organized and systematic. I made the map below from what I

Global Issues

Humanity on the Move

The topic I'm writing about in this post is something I see as a very serious issue—both in humanitarian terms and for the impact I expect it will have in the near future. Awareness of the Issue Headline after headline recently have told of staggering numbers of people risking

Links

Vox Maps

This post is a brief one; I'm sharing links to a site—well, a section of a site—that I find to be an interesting place to pass some time. For most of the articles on Vox.com, I'm pretty indifferent towards them. However, they have a maps section that

Water

27 Rivers to Know

Throughout history, rivers have been important for transportation, agriculture, and the economy. Some of the most ancient civilizations have been associated with specific river valleys. Battles and even wars have turned on an army's ability or inability to cross a river in strength. But I find a lot of maps

Yemen

In 2012, I had the opportunity to travel to Yemen for my job (a couple of my photos from that trip are at the end of this post). Since then, that country has held a special interest for me. So one time when I was in The Midtown Scholar used

New Brunswick

Where People Live in New Brunswick

A while ago I came across this map that I wanted to share. The guy who made it used freely-available (Yay for open data!) geo-referenced data for every building in New Brunswick. As he points out, even though only buildings are shown, the outlines of the province clearly appear (the