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> the country boasts one of the most undulatory coastlines in the world, measuring an astonishing 64,000 miles (by comparison, the entire United States coastline measures 95,471 miles). It is, in fact, impossible to measure the length of a coastline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox This accounts for the fact that contrary to the article’s stated length of 64,000 miles, the World Factbook gives the len…
Never taken the Hurtigruten, but if you're after a bit of an unorthodox vacation I can't recommend anything more highly than the Lofoten Islands in summer. Fly into Tromsø, spend a couple of days there, then rent a car and head west. Gorgeous scenery, twenty-four-hour sunlight, great hiking, and mild weather - we loved it.
I would recommend spending more time in Moskenesøya and less in Tromsø (or just avoid it). Go to Tromsø during the winter for seeing the northern lights instead :D
The cultural commentary of how parts of the world are now moving at vastly different speeds to the point where we are almost seeing bona fide time-travel seems WAY more important to think about.
> the country boasts one of the most undulatory coastlines in the world, measuring an astonishing 64,000 miles (by comparison, the entire United States coastline measures 95,471 miles). It is, in fact, impossible to measure the length of a coastline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox This accounts for the fact that contrary to the article’s stated length of 64,000 miles, the World Factbook gives the len…
true, but you can compare them, if you use the same measuring length.
EDIT: I misread — the article’s actual percentage is a far more reasonable 67%. I withdraw my objection.
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true, but you can compare them, if you use the same measuring length.
The World Factbook gives Norway’s coastline as being 80% as long as the length it gives for the United States’, and the WRI gave the same percentage as about 40%. Contrary to this, the article claims Norway’s coastline is 150% of that of the US. I doubt this figure, and no source is given. EDIT: I misread — the article’s actual percentage is a far more reasonable 67%. I withdraw my objection.
> the entire United States coastline measures 95,471 miles).
> 150%
Did you misread that? You quote Notway as havig a shorter coastline.
What is the cost to produce a page like this? Must be high, versus the cost of a normal article with inline images. I cannot imagine that the ROI is worth it. Therefore I think that this article format will disappear for economic reasons.
I don't think so. If you look at theatre for comparison (which is also an act of storytelling), most plays are simple amateur pieces, that anybody with some skills and knowledge can put together. However there are also very expensive professional theaters that that sometimes tell the same stories as the amateurs for many thousands times the cost of the amateur pies. Yet expensive theatre is found in every major city.…
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The World Factbook gives Norway’s coastline as being 80% as long as the length it gives for the United States’, and the WRI gave the same percentage as about 40%. Contrary to this, the article claims Norway’s coastline is 150% of that of the US. I doubt this figure, and no source is given. EDIT: I misread — the article’s actual percentage is a far more reasonable 67%. I withdraw my objection.
> measuring an astonishing 64,000 miles > the entire United States coastline measures 95,471 miles). > 150% Did you misread that? You quote Notway as havig a shorter coastline.
Thank you, yes. Post edited.
What is the cost to produce a page like this? Must be high, versus the cost of a normal article with inline images. I cannot imagine that the ROI is worth it. Therefore I think that this article format will disappear for economic reasons.
In fact, I'm betting on it by trying to find a market for being the creator of things like this. I haven't gotten started yet, but it's at the top of my 'business opportunities' list. I think I mostly just need to find someone who is good at visualizing data, or dive into that myself.
Does anyone know if that last part with the spinning globe was created in D3.js? I'm constantly gobsmacked with what can be done with that library.
Not sure why the focus here is on whatever incremental tech NYTimes used to create this article. The cultural commentary of how parts of the world are now moving at vastly different speeds to the point where we are almost seeing bona fide time-travel seems WAY more important to think about.
How was this article an example of that?