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How CNN lost to Fox News - Big Think

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he situation today: CNN pushed back to the edges of the country.

Over the course of no more than a decade, America has radically switched favorites when it comes to cable news networks. As this sequence of maps showing TMAs (Television Market Areas) suggests, CNN is out, Fox News is in.

The maps are certainly dramatic, but also a bit misleading. They nevertheless provide some insight into the state of journalism and the public’s attitudes toward the press in the US.

#cartographie #sémiologie #états-unis @média #cnn #foxnews

This ’anti-Temperance’ map foreshadows the collapse of Prohibition in America | Big Think

▻http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/this-prohibition-era-map-is-a-love-letter-to-alcohol

▻https://vinepair.com/articles/temperance-maps

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Throughout the 19th century, cartography was often used to promote sobriety. Here’s a counter-example: a map that celebrates alcohol, in various guises – published two years before the end of Prohibition.

The Temperance movement, which from the early 1800s sought to reduce the consumption of alcohol in the U.S., had a curious affinity for cartography. It produced numerous ’Temperance maps’, so called because they used fictional topographies to warn against the wickedness of drinking and promote the benefits of sobriety.

#cartographie #alcool #alcoolisme

Researchers Believe #Depression Once Offered Humans an Evolutionary Advantage | Big Think
▻http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/researchers-now-believe-that-depression-has-an-evolutionary-basis

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More people in the world today die from their own hand than in wars and car accidents combined. In the US every age group, other than older adults, has been affected. But women and the middle-aged are particularly prone to suicide. Studies have shown that in most cases, depression or some other disorder was the motivating factor. Researchers blame economic anxiety such as financial trouble and job instability and the inability to save for retirement, or even an emergency.

Where Europe Shrinks, and Where it Grows | Big Think

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Where Europe Shrinks, and Where it Grows

by Frank Jacobs

Europe’s population is ageing fast, and its younger generations are increasingly mobile. Both factors combine to explain the very uneven pattern on this map, showing in which regions the population is shrinking (blue), and where it is increasing (red). Quite often, the areas filling up and emptying out are right next to each other.

It’s the first time an analysis of Europe’s population growth and decline has been mapped to such an extent (across 43 countries) and in such detail (at municipal level). The data used spans the first decade of the century.

#cartographie #europe #croissance #riches #pauvres #inégalités

Petite histoire de la couverture de l’album Unknow Pleasure de Joy Division

Unmapped Pleasures : from Pulsar Signal to Post-Punk Icon | Big Think
▻http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/known-pleasures-from-pulsar-signal-to-post-punk-icon

A previous generation of teenagers swooned over Tolkien’s map of Middle-Earth, a finely detailed escapist fantasy. For young people in the early ’80s, the Unknown Pleasures cover served as the exact opposite: a negative image, literally as well as figuratively, doubling as a blind map of their disaffection. The lack of context added to its mystery, conjuring up an undiscovered country in harsh duochrome, one that this generation could truly call its own.

The album deliberately lacked any indication of the image’s context. Yet the image does have a history and a meaning, most of it well known. Fascinatingly, its earliest origins were uncovered only last month, in an article in Scientific American, of all publications. The image represents a sound landscape, but not from any part of the album itself. It is the visual rendition of the radio signal emitted by CP 1919, the very first pulsar ever discovered, on 28 November 1967.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVvoQIdD80U

#Joy_Division #Album_cover #Radio_signal #visualisation

Milk, the Drink of Conquerors | Strange Maps | Big Think

▻http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/618-milk-the-drink-of-conquerors

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The drink of conquerors? Not wine, or rum, or even the blood of your enemies - but milk. Plain old milk.

Recent scientific discoveries suggest that the spread of farming across prehistoric Europe may have gone hand in hand with the increase in lactose tolerance. This would have given the invading farmers and herders a crucial advantage over the native hunter-gatherers.

#cartographie #visualisation #isolignes #pouvoir #lait

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Posted on Strange Map’s blog

The Phantom Island of Brazil | Strange Maps | Big Think

►http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/572-the-phantom-island-of-brazil

Frank Jacobs on July 3, 2012

Map-readers knew about Brazil long before America was discovered; but they didn’t think of it as a giant country on a distant continent. Brazil, also known by the name Hy-Brasil [1], was a small, mist-shrouded island in the North Atlantic, not too far off Ireland’s west coast.

Only, Hy-Brasil never existed. Shown here on a Mercator map dating from 1623, it was one of many phantom islands that haunted marine cartography, sometimes for centuries, before more accurate observational techniques (and ultimately satellite photography) eliminated them all.

How Meditation Helps You Focus | IdeaFeed | Big Think
►http://bigthink.com/ideas/39954

Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts General ­Hospital have found that people trained to meditate over an eight-week period were better able to control a specific type of brain waves, called alpha rhythms