References to “the Seven Seas” are found throughout history, but the exact list varies by time and culture. Here are three of the most popular lists

Big USA map made of wildlife and state symbols

How to say “October” in different European languages

Mapped: Voter Turnout in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election by State

How to chase 60-80 degrees year-round

by u/hodsophia

Global Peace Index, 2023

Map of the Global Peace Index (GPI)! In assessing peacefulness, the GPI investigates the extent to which countries are involved in ongoing domestic and international conflicts and seeks to evaluate the level of harmony or discord within a nation. Ten indicators broadly assess what might be described as safety and security in society. Their assertion is that low crime rates, minimal incidences of terrorist acts and violent demonstrations, harmonious relations with neighbouring countries, a stable political scene, and a small proportion of the population being internally displaced or refugees can be suggestive of peacefulness. This includes number/duration of international conflicts, number of deaths from internal and external conflicts, number/duration of role in external conflicts, relations with neighboring countries, level of perceived criminality in a country, number of refugees/displaced peoples are percentage of population, political instability, impact of terrorism, political turmoil, number of homicides per 100,000 people, level of violent crime, likelihood of violent demonstrations, incarceration rates, military expenditure as % of gdp, number of police per 100,000 people, volume of global weapon transport, military personnel per 100,000 people, financial contribution to UN peace keeping, nuclear and wmd capability, and ease of access to small arms are all factors that are taken into account when analyzing the world’s nations for the GPI.

by powerfulcountries

@lotr20 day two: language - writing in middle earth

Australian “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice” Referendum results by polling place location. Bigger dots = more votes.

Narew River in Poland on Relative Elevation Model

by u/Vroni_Zyris

Another Antarctica Map - but this is the best map of Antarctica currently available “BedMachine Antartica”, published on 12 Dec. 2019. With a new technique, the team was able to deduce the Denman trough reached 3.5 kilometers below sea level—the deepest point on land.

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Antarctic population of research stations from Antarctic Atlas.

by @PeterTFretwell

Antarctic winter maximum

by NOAAClimate

A map depicting composite deposition of radioactive material across the contiguous U.S. from the Trinity test in New Mexico and from 93 atmospheric tests in Nevada.

by u/dtdv

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Canadian wildfires in 2023 have burned more than 4x the normal average

by u/infofino

Since summer school ended, I'm gonna make longer posts like this rehashing what I've learned.

Cree Dialect Continuum Map

Or more accurately, the Cree-Naskapi-Montagnais dialect continuum map

A dialect continuum is considered a chain of languages with "blurry" borders of legibility, where the "rough" areas of languages aren't clear, and as such are grouped together as a continuum--forming a "chain" of speakers that can understand adjacent speakers, but often not speakers of the "dialect" opposite of them. An example is how an Eastern Montagnais speaker might be able to understand adjacent languages clearly, but not Plains Cree (and vice versa). The variability of languages is often concentrated near the urheimat or "point of origin" before a common ancestor language split.

To add, North America has a few dialect continuums of other families that are often legally at least considered as "languages" (such as Inuktitut or the various Dene clusters of the (Sub-)Arctic).

Yupik (an Inuyunangan language), as far as I know are several distinct languages but lumped into one language by the US government census; I don't think they'd count here.

ps. Ojibwe Dialect Continuum Map

including Algonquin, Oji-Cree, Odawa, and Saulteaux (which linguistically are considered Ojibwe)

excluding the sister-ish language Potawatomi.

Note that these boundaries shown on the map are often based around communities and nations, and may not be representative of the exact placement or variation of the dialects; as I've said, things get really blurry.

June 2023 was the warmest June on record for the world by a considerable margin.

by @ScottDuncanWX

World sees record heat waves

Selection of heat records by country (or continent) recorded during the last six years, in °C