It’s day 5…earth! I was particular excited about this day in the 30 day map challenege because earth is my thing…I did a M.Sc. in Geology and taught Geomorphology at Acadia University for several years.
The Daily Planet #125 - The Daily Planet
12-mile Middle Earth Hexmap
I've been re-reading the Hobbit & Lord of The Rings this year, so naturally my latest cartographic hyperfixation was to make a map of Tolkien's paracosm. ...
Planetary Sapience & Planetary Stupidity: a Bildungsroman for the Baby Noosphere | Antikythera
That is, the faculty of recollection and foresight? Until recently, I would argue, our planet was amnesiac. That is, no part of it was reflectively aware of the place of the present relative to the established past nor the expected future. But then peculiar animals emerged, capable—no matter how imperfectly—of cooperation, abstraction and invention. In the last blink of geologic time, through the collaboration of these animals with their increasingly cunning artifacts, this state of planetary amnesia has faltering begun being cured. That is, through our artifacts, our planet is becoming aware of its own unfolding biography. In our fallible attempts to model our world—alongside our growing legion of sensors—The Earth system has developed a way of recollecting its deepest past and tracking the changing complexities of its present so as to forecast its furthest future.
The Daily Planet #120: Deep Time Continued - The Daily Planet
25th Anniversary
But Stand.earth was not built for nostalgia—we were built for this moment.
3D Terrain Maps
With spring about to arrive, it is time to end this series, get away from the computer, and go outside. I hope that you find the information useful!
The Daily Planet #122: More on Deep Time - The Daily Planet
Annick de Witt on Worldview Theory in a Time Between Worlds
Join us for the Life Itself Research Community Call#33. Annick de Witt discusses how her research on worldviews helps us respond to our current period of global societal transition.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible …
ATScience 2026
A full-day exploration of AT Protocol for science, education, and open knowledge. A side event to AtmosphereConf 2026 @ Vancouver, March 27, 2026
A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Roadmapping
Wonderful maps and how to read them
The Daily Planet #119: On Deep Time - The Daily Planet
AMA | June 2026
