SYSK Selects: How Maps Work

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 10 June 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, yes, your brain may have just flash-dried from boredom at the thought of learning about maps, but it turns out they are a lot more than just tools for navigation. Maps are two-dimensional representations of how we imagi

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.4	Hi everybody, this is Chuck again with another edition of Stuff You Should Know Selects.
0:35.6	Our Saturday Classic Edition episodes.
0:39.4	And as you know, we're curating these one at a time and this week I got to pick
0:44.4	and I picked how maps work.
0:46.2	And I picked this one because everyone knows I love maps.
0:49.7	And so I thought it was a good one to rerun.
0:51.2	And plus I get to talk a little bit about my old high school best friend, Rad, who is
0:55.3	a cartographer.
0:56.3	And I'm always happy to get the word out about his work.
0:58.6	So listen and enjoy.
1:02.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
1:12.1	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:13.1	I'm Josh Clark and I'm Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:15.8	And I just had a bunch of peanuts.
1:18.3	So it's Stuff You Should Know Time.
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