Smog from Space

Taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, the image above shows a titanic cloak of smog that had settled over China.

Stochasticplanet

Every day a PHP script picks a random spot on the land mass of Earth. The nearest photo to that spot is posted here.

View of Australia Bush Fires from Space

A CANADIAN engineer tweeting incredible images of Earth from Space has photographed Australia's bushfires from the International Space Station.

China's Growing Drug Appetite

The country's economy has exploded over the past quarter-century. And so has the market for narcotics whose use was once virtually unheard of.

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Map-Territory Relation

"The map is not the territory"

The map–territory relation describes the relationship between an object and a representation of that object, as in the relation between a geographical territory and a map of it. Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski remarked that "the map is not the territory", encapsulating his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. Korzybski held that many people do confuse maps with territories, that is, confuse models of reality with reality itself.