From flammable neighborhoods to moral hazards, fire insurance maps capture early US cities and the landscape of discrimination

Hundreds of thousands of Sanborn maps mapped the fire risk of every US city with over 1,000 people in the 20th century.

What a $400,000 home looks like in Houston now - from the Inner Loop to the suburbs

Same $400,000 budget. Very different homes. Take a look at what homebuyers can get across the Houston metro now, from the ...
The Great Outdoors on MSN

Our experts tap in to test the best hiking apps 2026

Alex Roddie takes a look at seven of the best hiking apps to help you find your way in the mountains as an additional ...
UNESCO

Old Havana and its Fortification System

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...
IEEE

Analysis and Control of the Dynamic Walking of the Compass Biped Walker Using Poincaré Maps: Comparison Between Two Design Approaches

Abstract: The present work aspires to summarize and compare previous findings treating the analyze and control of the human-like passive walking dynamics of the compass-gait biped walker (CGBW). Our ...
Mental Floss

9 Phantom Islands That Haunt Old Maps

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...