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Links So Nice We'll Do It Twice
For my American readers, please to enjoy your upcoming three-day weekend. To carry you off, have some links:
A) Elizabeth Bear has 13 ways of looking at narrative.
B) An interesting map showing where the GDP of the US is concentrated. To nobody's surprise, 50% of US GDP happens in the top 23 metro areas.
C) A pair of fascinating images from XKCD:
First, how big of a change from global warming:
Second, all the surface area in the Solar System on the same map. As one can clearly see, Mars may be a small planet but it's got the same land area as all of Earth's continents.
A) Elizabeth Bear has 13 ways of looking at narrative.
B) An interesting map showing where the GDP of the US is concentrated. To nobody's surprise, 50% of US GDP happens in the top 23 metro areas.
C) A pair of fascinating images from XKCD:
First, how big of a change from global warming:
Second, all the surface area in the Solar System on the same map. As one can clearly see, Mars may be a small planet but it's got the same land area as all of Earth's continents.