It was back in 1994 that Dr William Peterman (then at the University of Illinois at Chicago) mooted the idea of ‘Quantum Geography’ (QG) with an article for the journal The Professional Geographer, Volume 46, 1994 – Issue 1, entitled : ‘Quantum Theory and Geography: What Can Dr. Bertlmann Teach Us’. Dr. Peterman examined the possibilities […]
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The Psychoanalytic Geography of Alan Partridge
Preamble: Alan Gordon Partridge is a (fictional) TV and Radio presenter, based in Norfolk, UK. For further info, Youtube currently hosts a three-part (fictional) TV documentary about his (fictional) life : part 1 part 2 part 3 What have Lacan and Foucalt to do with Alan Partridge? For answers, see the work of Paul Kingsbury, […]
Kansans flattered by flatness vs Kansas flatness decriers
Kansans have long been at war with each other over the goodness of the flatness of their state. Some are proud, some are not. The University of Kansas has now issued a press release that creates its own controversy, and then claims to settle that controversy. The press release denigrates a paper we (the Annals of Improbable […]
Happily stuck in time and space
En route from Vancouver to Australia on Dec. 30, 1899, the captain of the S.S. Warrimoo spotted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. At midnight, he stopped the ship at the intersection of the international date line and the equator. At that moment, the ship was straddling two different hemispheres, days, months, years, seasons, and centuries, all at […]
Oklahoma and Texas Look Almost Like a Cooking Pan
Xingjian Liu, Tinghua Ai, and Yaolin of the Liu [of the Department of Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos, Texas School of Resources and Environmental Science, and Wuhan University] begin their article “Oklahoma and Texas Look Almost Like a Cooking Pan” [AIR 16:2] by saying: In this paper, we apply spatial analytical tool to address the […]
Please call Stella
Hear the phrase “Please call Stella” spoken by natives of Brooklyn, New York, USA, Khabarovsk, Russia, Edinburgh, Scotland, and many other places. George Mason University’s Speech Accent Archive has recordings of: a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are […]