Tuesday, March 2
OMSI SCIENCE PUB @ the Bagdad Theatre
"The Ghost Map" and the Future of Cities - Steven Johnson


Doors at 5 p.m.; event at 7 p.m. | $2 suggestion donation | All ages welcome

Author Steven Johnson will talk about how The Ghost Map’s nineteenth century cholera epidemic can help us understand the future of our cities: the power of neighborhoods to solve problems, new forms of digital mapping and information sharing, and the challenges facing mega-cities in the developing world.
 
 
Calling all undergraduate / community college students!

I saw this ad for a "Bizarre Map Challenge" and thought some of you might be interested in submitting a map. The challenge doesn't start until March 1 and goes through March 22nd - so perfect timing for final projects. The grand prize is $5,000, so it could be worth the effort. Click here for the flyer with all the details.
 
 

From the Morning News:

If you’ve ever picked up an old globe in a thrift store, you already know the sport of trying to determine its age based on where certain borders are demarcated and how territories are designated. And if testing your combined knowledge of history, culture, and cartography sounds like your kind of fun (it’s our kind of fun), you may enjoy what we’ve got in store.

We’ve removed the legends and all other telltale labels from the maps below, and challenge you to guess what each map depicts using only clues contained within the maps: the color-coding, names, landmarks, and whatever else you can detect. Here’s one clue to get you started: None of the maps represent gross national anything.

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/diversions/cloud_of_atlases.php