This map is not upside down
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This map is not upside down
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#2> Psychologically, we tend to view things nearer the top as ‘good’ and those lower as ‘bad.’
This, of course, is the point of the article. It was so predictable that it made me wonder: who is telling me that top is good and lower is bad? The articles themselves.
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#3Is there a way to purchase this map for printing so Robert Simmon gets compensated?
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#4The weirdest thing about this to me is I was just thinking about the arbitrariness of current North being up the other day and then this article pops up here.
They're reading our freaking brains!
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#5Is there a way to purchase this map for printing so Robert Simmon gets compensated?
I mean you could just Venmo him
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#6This is a great map, they should show it alongside the typical one when teaching geography. I'll show this to my kids later, see what they think and ask them to find some countries on it.
A similar change of perspective "trick" is knowing that when we look up at the stars, it's not really "up", it can be "down", too. Imagine being suspended head down, feet stuck to the ground looking at the space below, with billions of light years worth of almost nothing out there. A bit terrifying, I suppose, so maybe don't think too much about it :-)
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#7The West Wing has such a good clip about this:
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#8This is a great map, they should show it alongside the typical one when teaching geography. I'll show this to my kids later, see what they think and ask them to find some countries on it. A similar change of perspective "trick" is knowing that when we look up at the stars, it's not really "up", it can be "down", too. Imagine being suspended head down, feet stuck to the ground looking at the space below, with billions…
"The enemy's gate is down"!
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#9> Psychologically, we tend to view things nearer the top as ‘good’ and those lower as ‘bad.’ This, of course, is the point of the article. It was so predictable that it made me wonder: who is telling me that top is good and lower is bad? The articles themselves.
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#10Thought of this old Mafalda strip, haha.
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