First Maps: Scientific Projections of Global Warming

Knowledge mapping is sensemaking

Ambiguity, Cognition, Learning, Teaching, and Design : http://www.learndev.org/ambiguity.html

(NASA) Earth Science Maps

(Example) StreetViews

http://www.spiralzoom.com/ : where you can learn about how spirals form in nature.

[PDF] Are we Living in a Cartographic Illiterate Society?

(1 hour audio lecture ) James Burke: The Knowledge Web; Voices From The Smithsonian

Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

Hate joke of the day: Do you know the real reason why aid is so slow getting into Myanmar? Everyone's looking for Burma on the map.

"Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation." - Bertrand Russell
"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos." - I Ching
"Today is a one-time deal; offer expires at midnight." - The Universe
"The difference between art and a map is, I forget." - R.B. Wild (after Wilfrid Sheed, Max Jamison)
"Once a man sets his foot upon the spiritual path, the way grows ever more narrow, until at last he can only do what he must." - Ursula Le Guin