Public Notes
by Max Becher
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Geography
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The law of geographic perspective
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In physical perspective objects further away look smaller and closer together and are harder to distinguish. There is an equivalent in cultu...
European and American population scales in relation to economic diversity
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I wonder if there is a connection between the fact that Europe has countries with more similar population sizes and more equitable distribut...
The new world is different from the old world, differently.
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The new world is not different from the old world in the sense that places differ from another, only within the framework of a general cultu...
Americans' knowledge of geography is inversely proportional to their influence on it.
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Or, more precise but longer: The influence of the American economy and foreign policy on the world is inversely proportional to the American...
Geographic anomalies
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Tijuana, Mexico is farther north than Savannah, Georgia. New York City is farther south than Barcelona, Spain and Rome, Italy. Toronto, Ca...
Europe used to copy itself across the world, via colonialism. Now it copies its colonies, via tourism.
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