As the COP21 climate talks continues in Paris, ‘The Climate Regime Map’ from Griffith University aims to untangle the complex mesh of the UN climate regime (pictured). Warning: this is like no map you’ve seen before.
ESRI has also released a comprehensive set of story maps showing the circumstances and opportunities of climate change on a global scale, as shown on The Atlantic.
CityLab also featured a series of maps showing how the Australian lexcon varies across the continent. Will you be donning your ‘swimmers’, ‘cossies’, ‘toggs’ or ‘bathers’ this summer?
Another week closer to Star Wars: Episode VII, another homemade Star Wars Drone. This UAV Expert and toy hacker converted the new TIE Fighter model into a fully functional UAV.
While we’re on drones, if you didn’t catch the video of Amazon Prime Air’s beautiful hybrid drone in action, you truly must watch. Welcome to the future [via Tom’s Guide].
In what truly is an Internet of [literally] Everything (IoE) initiative, researchers in the UK are acquiring microbial data from sensors placed in sewers to predict from human waste when a virus or even the common flu might outbreak.
With this holiday period set to see more personal electronic devices purchased than ever, there will also be more electronic waste than ever before. The New York Times showed how your old gadgets can dodge landfill, or even make you a profit.
The Huntington Library blog featured its 1815 map that changed the world, or more specifically, how we came to understand the Earth’s natural features and what lies below the Earth’s surface.
