Instead, they use north, south, east, and west for everything, from describing the location of a nearby object to giving complex directions across long distances.

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In an era of increasing global uncertainty, Xi's call for high-quality cooperation grounded in the China-Central Asia Spirit signals a potent and principled counter-narrative to the growing waves of ...

Eight Missouri football recruiting targets will announce their college commitments in the next 10 days. Here are the names and dates to watch.

MedGlobal, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that arranges for hundreds of medical workers to treat people in Gaza, called for the release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical workers.

Sparsely populated areas in the Jordan Valley have come under increasing pressure from settlers who have begun grazing large flocks of sheep on the hillsides used by Bedouin and other herders.

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that ...

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BENT COMPASS by Neil Brookshire and Colin Sesek is Coming to SoloFest 2025 Performances will run from March 7-9.

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point. See ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction.