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Martin Ocean Transport – Model 130 (a useful poster)
11.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

We all know that Don loves details. At The Periphery love details that are made visual, which is why we love this infographic from Fortune magazine detailing the inner workings and structures of the Martin Ocean Transport. You could read the caption and learn that the plane needs to carry an anchor, winch, lifeboats, belts [...]
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Something Bit Me!
05.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

How often have you been doing fieldwork in the rainforest and discovered an insect that you knew that you should remember the name of, yet couldn’t quite recall it quickly enough to put it in your field notebook before it stung you. As a result you were unable to communicate which antidote you would need to counteract the poison now mingling with your blood and annihilating your liver. It seems like it happens to me all the time, which is exactly why I always simply point to the menacing monster on this poster and everyone knows exactly what to do while I panic.
You can head on over to A criação to check out some more detailed images.
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The Usefulness Paradox
05.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

A friend of mine titled her undergrad thesis, “When Help Isn’t Helpful.” I have come to wonder about the opposite. Can the most useless things become the the most useful. I hope so, because then this chart would come in handy.

Nonsense Chart No.6 on Flickr – Photo Sharing.
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Handy reference pertaining to migratory/predatory speed
05.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I can think of at least 3 reasons why this t-shirt (a t-shirt is really just a poster for your body) might be handy for geographers.
1) In the field geographers face many dangers, including unprovoked (hopefully) attack from the subject of study. If you (or your research assistant/partner) is wearing this t-shirt, at [...]
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Russian America
04.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Imagine for a moment that you were out trapping furs in Alaska. Now imagine that you were out trapping furs in Alaska and the year was 1856. You can’t do it can you? It is simply unimaginable because you wouldn’t have been in Alaska in 1856, you would have been in “Russian America.” Fortunately this [...]
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One way to embody space/time compression
04.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

David Harvey writes:

“Indeed, when compared with almost all other forms of innovation, the radical reorganzation of space relations and of spatial representations have had an extraordinarily powerful effect. The turnpikes and canals, the railways, steamships, and telegraphy, the radio and the automobile, containerization, jet cargo transport, television and telecommunications, hav altered space and time relations [...]
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“Don’t forget the basic building blocks of matter”
04.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Continuing with our series of useful posters to hang up in your office, this week we present a helpful guide to time travel, which won’t necessarily be useful in your office unless you’ve chosen to modify your office as a time machine. It might be more useful in your temporally modified shed and/or phone-booth and/or [...]
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The best dissertation…
04.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Via Brent’s blog:

More sizes on flickr. Brent found it here