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Hi! I’m Signore Galilei, and I write books, create educational videos online, and participated in the Inkhaven blogging residency.
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The Five Boroughs of Old York
If you’re a geography nerd, familiar with New York City, or (like me) both, then you’ve definitely heard of NYC’s “Five Boroughs”. These are the city’s main administrative divisions, and each one also functions as a county of the state of New York. You’ve got: Manhattan (New York County) Brooklyn (Kings County) Queens (Queens County)…
The most contentious person on Wikipedia is an African samurai
Recently, I’ve discovered that Wikipedia keeps a list of “contentious topics”, which require extra care and attention from editors and administrators, since they’re frequent targets of edit wars and vandalism. Wikipedia’s Arbitration committee can move topics onto the list, and topics expire from the list after some predetermined period (at least a year) if the…
Map projections are tough – here’s my new favorite
There is no such thing as a perfect map projection. Mathematically, it’s impossible to transform the approximately spherical surface of the Earth into a 2-dimensional map without distorting either the shapes or relative sizes of the features on its surface (or both). You have to make compromises somewhere. Of course, you can make a globe,…