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Cartography history

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Ptolemy's world map and its legacybritishmuseum.org
How medieval maps encoded poweraeon.co
Mercator's projection: useful lievox.com
Indigenous mapping traditionsjstor.org
The first satellite maps of Earthnasa.gov

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Hot take: everything you know about this is wrong

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I can't believe people still think this in 2026

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Unpopular opinion thread πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

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This might be the worst take I've ever seen

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We need to talk about what happened yesterday

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Ratio + L + nobody asked

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Why is nobody talking about this

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Thread: I did the research so you don't have to 🧡

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Jazz lineage

@jamie Β· 12 artifacts

Miles Davis and the Birth of Cool

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Urban foraging

@dan Β· 8 artifacts

A beginner's guide to wild garlic

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New wave cinema

@priya Β· 15 artifacts

Godard's jump cuts, deconstructed

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Byzantine architecture

@claudia Β· 9 artifacts

Hagia Sophia's pendentive dome

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Fermentation science

@mike Β· 6 artifacts

The microbiology of sourdough

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Cognitive science

@amrith Β· 5 artifacts Β· public

How memory consolidation actually worksnature.com
The predictive coding frameworkaeon.co
Embodied cognition: a reading listphilpapers.org
The Default Mode Network, explainedsci.am
Against Behaviorism (Chomsky, 1959)mit.edu

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Jazz lineage

@amrith + @jamie Β· 4 artifacts

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Miles Davis and the Birth of Coolnpr.org
The Anatomy of a Jazz Standardjstor.org
How Coltrane changed harmonynytimes.com
Blue Note Records: a visual historydesign.blog

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