Never mind Waldo or Bernie. Where’s Atlantis? The site of the “lost civilization” has probably caused more trees to be cut down in the service of books and magazines claiming to know the answer than any other pseudo-scientific boondoggle. As I wrote a while back (“Atlantis: The Lost Land,” Sept. 10, 2015), the mythical land […]
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A Question of Longitude
Last week, we saw how, starting in the late 1600s, astronomers published almanacs of predictable celestial events, in particular the eclipses of Jupiter’s four bright (“Galilean”) moons, allowing travelers anywhere in the world to compare their local time with almanac time, thus giving them their longitudes. Let’s see how that worked in real life, especially […]
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Cool! Eureka Wants You to Create Heatmaps of Chill Spots
If you caught our cover story a few weeks ago, you might have noticed that Eureka’s Community Development staff really loves maps. Whether it’s the 1902 map of the city that adorns the wall of Development Director Rob Holmlund’s office or the online architecture map developed by the department, which you can find at www.eurekahistory.com, […]