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Subscribe nowIn Europe, we've kicked off this summer with pretty high temperatures. In Spain, we've already had one heatwave, and the second one is just beginning. Right on schedule, so we don't get out of the habit. I could well have bored you with maps

Subscribe nowHave you ever wondered how long Britain's coastline is?Off the top of your head, it's surely something you can look up in any encyclopaedia, just as you might find the country's area, the highest point or capital. If you look in The World Fac

Subscribe nowMay has arrived in Spain with a vengeance. As well as the usual pollen, to which I'm very allergic, the high temperatures have also come. And of course, this is a problem for me: if I go outside, the pollen makes my life a living hell, and if

Subscribe nowFollowing the release of Ridley Scott's much-criticised film about Napoleon, I took another deep dive into Charles Joseph Minard's most famous map.Don't know which map I'm referring to? Well, it is this absolute marvel.Figurative map of Napol

Subscribe nowThose of us who love cartography and geography have rather unusual tastes. Although maps and globes have been with us for millennia1, the reality is that there aren't many iconic monuments in which maps or globes are the main feature. When I

Subscribe nowThis year is dragging on. The news is more or less the same every month and, in a way, this has a big influence on the maps I'm bringing you in these rounds of the Maps of the Month. As I also like to brighten people's days, I'm going to leav

Subscribe nowToday's topic may be a sensitive one, so I will use this introduction to lay some groundwork that will help contextualise what follows.Schools and educational models are what enable us to regulate the knowledge that every citizen needs to coe

Subscribe nowWe are still in the middle of an extremely busy year. Although only a quarter of it has passed, you'd think we've been in the muddy waters of 2026 for decades. And it doesn't look like things are going to slow down. The good news is that the

Subscribe nowTwo and a half years ago, several videos of couples talking about the Roman Empire went viral on the internet. More specifically, women asking their boyfriends and husbands how often they thought about the Roman Empire, and many of them were

Subscribe nowFor the past couple of years, tensions between Canada and the United States have done nothing but escalate. Things began to turn ugly when Donald Trump suggested to Justin Trudeau, during a private meeting in late 2024, that Canada might beco