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#7290% of the world's population and 68% of the land mass being in the northen hemisphere is probably a good enough reason to put north up top on a map.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes. I know of places in america where numbers are sequential. I know of other places where they a sequential but increase by five.
Could you share some examples please? I'm not doubting you, just want to look at some maps.
I don't know how to do this... I also don't remember where anymore.
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#74> 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.
At one point a character in Eco's Foucault's Pendulum says "archetypes don't exist, the body exists" and then gives some sexual and reproductive examples, followed by > And high is better than low, because if you have your head down, the blood goes to your brain, because feet stink and hair doesn’t stink as much, because it’s better to climb a tree and pick fruit than end up underground, food for worms, and because y…
> so if two people or other creatures are fighting, one who is higher is generally at an advantage compared to one who is lower or lying on the ground
Tell that to a BJJ fighter.
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#76> 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.
Really? Before you read this article you never associated being on top = good and being at the bottom = bad?
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#77Some trivia: the North Pole is actually the magnetic south pole.
Out of convention we call it the “North Pole” because on a compass the north magnet is point toward its attract magnetic south.
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#78> 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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#79I bought a similar map from a shop in Australia and thought it was a really cool way to look at things from a different perspective. Perhaps un-surprisingly, it has Australa front and centre.
https://hemamaps.com/products/upside-down-world-in-envelope-...
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#80> 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.
Really? Before you read this article you never associated being on top = good and being at the bottom = bad?
Probably as kid, but at some point in maturing you learn that what you consider good/bad is your own prejudice and working off that is going to cause social troubles.