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MapBox What our devices can tell us about the geographic divisions of urban wealth.
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Maps
4 of the World's Great Cities Like You've Never Seen Them Before
You probably didn't even know that watercolor comes in 3D.
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How Long Must We Wait for the Bladeless Windmill?
A few years, at least. But the future is bright.
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How Smartphones Could Revolutionize the Way We Heat and Cool Our Homes
Customers could run their appliances and manage their utilities from their mobile devices, cutting down on power use.
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Maps
A Satellite Map Capable of Erasing All the World's Clouds
Suddenly, the earth beneath our atmosphere becomes much clearer – and more beautiful.
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Videos
Amazing Treasure of the Day: A 114-Year-Old Sidewalk Clock
What time is it, New York?
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Toilet Tuesday
App Developers Turn Their Eye to Global Sanitation
Participants of the "International Sanitation Hackathon" have some promising ideas to fight disease and death caused by poor sanitation.
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Maps
How a Map Is Like an Op-Ed
Thanks to the open data movement, anyone can be a cartographer. Professor Laura Kurgan on geography as a storytelling tool.
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Videos
Aggregating Cell Phone Data in Search of the 'Pulse of the Planet'
Universal mobility patterns we haven't fully understood before could soon come into view.
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Your Local Newspaper, Delivered By Drones
Plans to use robots to replace humans in package delivery, in France and beyond.
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The Big Fix
The Surprisingly Gentle Science Behind New York's Plan to Sterilize Its Rats
Hitting urban rodents in their reproductive systems may be the best thing to ever happen to them.
