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Nicholas Weininger's avatar

The Atlas Obscura book is great, but for an additional compelling narrative, maybe use this Kurzgesagt 2025 calendar to tell the story of human geographic expansion over the last 50,000 years?

https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/12-025-human-era-calendar?srsltid=AfmBOoogZwRekeE5CLx8WzFFEgVb6F7Va36WHAqHlpHknEOGG4lvEpfh&variant=41160118829104

Brandon Hendrickson's avatar

Oh, we are BIG fans of the Kurzgesaagt posters, here in the Hendrickson family! I'll say that my opinion of them, though, is that they're pretty, but not particularly educative. Maybe it's that a monthly calendar can't be — part of the power of learning is to see the whole and the parts together, and walking through 12 pages over the course of a year doesn't offer that? (But their videos are liquid gold.)

Becky S. Hayden's avatar

Definitely interested in the trick for using the biome-based Atlas Obscura book!