Paris this week

To coincide with this week's international climate change talks in Paris Amanda has submitted this explainer comic by Richard Monastersky & Nick Sousans:

Walk the world

There's a guy who has built a walk-able map of the world in Verdenskortet, Denmark

Abridged history?

I'm not sure I get this one:

At the center of it all

Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright recently went to North Korea and took photos of colorful, symmetrical building interiors.  One of them included this North Korea-centric wall map.

Mapping terror

Here's a video animation of 15 years of terrorist attacks by designer Milan R. Vuckovic.  Is it more or less discomfiting than this animation of the history of nuclear tests?

The looking glass