-
25 votes
-
US voters were right about the economy. The data was wrong.
39 votes -
Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' for US users
25 votes -
Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship
3 votes -
Three simple principles of trade policy
11 votes -
Top American banks have left the net zero climate alliance
20 votes -
UK orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
49 votes -
Baltic states leave Russian power grid in closer EU integration
29 votes -
Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan offers bleak assessment of year ahead for motor industry – shares his views on tariffs and the development of electric vehicle sales
7 votes -
US documents say Project 2025’s creators The Heritage Foundation want to dox Wikipedia’s volunteer editors of pages related to Palestine conflict using powerful tools
33 votes -
In the US, multi-level barrage of book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
15 votes -
Interview with economist James Galbraith about new book, economic theory, climate change, sanctions and more
3 votes -
Ryanair pulls out of two Danish airports blaming harmful tax – airline says passenger tax will make country's regional airports hopelessly uncompetitive compared to others in EU
15 votes -
Denmark will ramp up inspections of ships transporting Russian oil through its narrow straits, in an effort to protect the environment and maritime safety from older vessels in Moscow's shadow fleet
11 votes -
The full story of the US Federal Aviation Administration's hiring scandal
15 votes -
Valiant Comics on the feasibility of a $4.99 issue
3 votes -
Norway's environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”
16 votes -
How did racist mass texts bypass some anti-spam guardrails after the US election?
13 votes -
Chinese solar firms go where US tariffs don't reach
11 votes -
Looking for a visualization of North American political boundaries over time
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or...
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or interactive visualization that I can scroll back and forward through time to see the changes in detail?
Things I'm particularly interested in tracking:
- Indigenous lands (specifically how the boundaries of traditional/ancestral lands evolved into modern-day reservations)
- European claims like those of Britain, France, and Spain
- What was considered US/Canada/Mexico territory vs. no man's land or frontier at different points in time, from the governance standpoint of each of those nations
- Large and rapid settling movements like the Mormons into Utah, Oklahoma land rush, California gold rush, etc.
- Other factors like homesteading programs (I don't know much about this) and the transcontinental railroad, confederacy borders, trail of tears, etc.
- Notable battles/massacres marking bloody land disputes
I mean I guess that's a lot, this is basically "tell me about all of American history." 😂
I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp of the general political timeline and important events, I'm just realizing lately that I don't have a cohesive mental model of how it all fits on a map and changed over the years. I did find the Wikipedia page on Territorial Evolution of the United States to be interesting but it's a bit overwhelming and not very digestible. It contains this animated gif, which is awesome but I can't scroll through it at my own pace, and it's USA only.
13 votes -
Some residents say they were in the dark as Los Angeles fires spread with no evacuation order
9 votes -
US Space Force official warns there is not enough room to prep satellites as commercial and government missions ramp up
16 votes -
Is Colorado's EV incentive worth it?
8 votes -
US President signs order restricting gender-affirming treatments for anyone under 19
42 votes -
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to US President Donald Trump executive orders
13 votes -
US CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid’s origins
33 votes -
Feminists facing resistance in China find the funny side of things
13 votes -
Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
23 votes -
The curse of the household analogy regarding UK government spending
24 votes -
Eighteen months after Maui wildfires destroyed over 2,000 homes, only three have been rebuilt
26 votes -
Denmark became the world's first country to offer legal recognition of gay partnerships on 1 October 1989 – a day when "something shifted in human affairs"
13 votes -
Donald Trump signs actions to pull US out of Paris climate agreement, intends to promote fossil fuels and mineral mining
32 votes -
Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
13 votes -
Iceland is crowdsourcing ideas from the population on budget savings to ensure taxpayer money is well spent
13 votes -
NASA moves swiftly to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, ask US employees to “report” violations
30 votes -
Sweden urges UK to join European mini-nuclear reactor pact – Britain would make ‘great partner’ for bulk order of reactors, says Ebba Busch
18 votes -
Families of the more than 120 men killed when the Alexander L. Kielland oil rig capsized in 1980 were failed by official investigations in Norway, a new study has concluded
7 votes -
Joy as Thailand's same-sex couples can at last get married
48 votes -
National Institutes of Health ordered by US President Trump admin to enact 'immediate and indefinite' travel suspension
37 votes -
With Finland's signing of Artemis Accords, NASA celebrates the 53rd nation committing to the safe and responsible exploration of space that benefits humanity
14 votes -
US President Donald Trump’s gender order won’t affect existing passports — unless they’re renewed
16 votes -
Riches thought to lie beneath Greenland have been coveted for more than a century – but how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference
7 votes -
US President Donald Trump to issue executive orders to end birthright citizenship, limit gender identity — incoming official
67 votes -
Patrick Radden Keefe: Author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain talks about journalism career, upcoming TV series, and covering Donald Trump as a journalist
6 votes -
How long? Not long! - Martin Luther King
8 votes -
Lambda Legal condemns anti-LGBTQ+ US executive orders, vows legal action: “We’ll see you in court”
17 votes -
Joint venture between Germany's Uniper and Blykalla has started work on a test reactor in Sweden – latest sign nation's nuclear renaissance is gathering pace
10 votes -
Finnish state should invest in a new nuclear power plant, according to Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Kai Mykkänen – electricity needs are expected to double over the next decade
22 votes -
European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents
51 votes -
Andøya Spaceport is centrepiece in the Technology Safeguards Agreement signed by US and Norwegian authorities
7 votes