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We’ve all noticed the recent saturation of microhistories on bookstore shelves. You know, there’s Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, A History of the World in Six Glasses, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1434: The [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]