Andrew Middleton
@mapcenter.com
'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Before my talk at the Falmouth Library last night I visited Maps of Antiquity in Chatham.
It was amazing. Excellent collection of antique maps. I asked questions, stayed for like 40 minutes and chatted with the sales rep. Then I left without buying anything. And it ruuuuuled.
So I get it now.
It was amazing. Excellent collection of antique maps. I asked questions, stayed for like 40 minutes and chatted with the sales rep. Then I left without buying anything. And it ruuuuuled.
So I get it now.
January 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Before my talk at the Falmouth Library last night I visited Maps of Antiquity in Chatham.
It was amazing. Excellent collection of antique maps. I asked questions, stayed for like 40 minutes and chatted with the sales rep. Then I left without buying anything. And it ruuuuuled.
So I get it now.
It was amazing. Excellent collection of antique maps. I asked questions, stayed for like 40 minutes and chatted with the sales rep. Then I left without buying anything. And it ruuuuuled.
So I get it now.
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As a native Masshole, I could literally fall asleep to this—somehow very comforting. Also Affleck’s delivery is superior youtu.be/FhC76xAq7oE
Three Guys from Boston (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jimmy) Say Every Town and City in Massachusetts
YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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January 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
As a native Masshole, I could literally fall asleep to this—somehow very comforting. Also Affleck’s delivery is superior youtu.be/FhC76xAq7oE
Had a great turnout for How Maps Lie at the Falmouth Public Library! With Woods Hole so close by it was a tough crowd filled with some heavy-hitting nerds. We all had a good time.
Also I want to make you aware that Falmouth has a tricycle book-mobile.
Also I want to make you aware that Falmouth has a tricycle book-mobile.
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Had a great turnout for How Maps Lie at the Falmouth Public Library! With Woods Hole so close by it was a tough crowd filled with some heavy-hitting nerds. We all had a good time.
Also I want to make you aware that Falmouth has a tricycle book-mobile.
Also I want to make you aware that Falmouth has a tricycle book-mobile.
This one is for the fans of the pod.
(That is, my old podcast Measure for Measure)
(That is, my old podcast Measure for Measure)
January 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This one is for the fans of the pod.
(That is, my old podcast Measure for Measure)
(That is, my old podcast Measure for Measure)
I have one of these maps on display (untailored) and you should totally ask to see it when you come visit.
It's one of those objects that I could sell. Once. But I'd rather show it off for free a thousand times.
It's one of those objects that I could sell. Once. But I'd rather show it off for free a thousand times.
The British comedy/panel show QI had this short bit about silk escape maps being made into underthings after World War II. (This is from episode 6 of series U, which aired in February 2024.) The… More
Miscellaneous Maps on Silk
The British comedy/panel show QI had this short bit about silk escape maps being made into underthings after World War II. (This is from episode 6 of series U, which aired in February 2024.) The… More
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January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I have one of these maps on display (untailored) and you should totally ask to see it when you come visit.
It's one of those objects that I could sell. Once. But I'd rather show it off for free a thousand times.
It's one of those objects that I could sell. Once. But I'd rather show it off for free a thousand times.
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
Did you know about the Leventhal Center's in-gallery library? 📚
We have nearly 2,000 books and atlases available to browse during our open hours. Book topics range from tourist guides to place-based history ... and even maps of fictional worlds!
We have nearly 2,000 books and atlases available to browse during our open hours. Book topics range from tourist guides to place-based history ... and even maps of fictional worlds!
January 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Did you know about the Leventhal Center's in-gallery library? 📚
We have nearly 2,000 books and atlases available to browse during our open hours. Book topics range from tourist guides to place-based history ... and even maps of fictional worlds!
We have nearly 2,000 books and atlases available to browse during our open hours. Book topics range from tourist guides to place-based history ... and even maps of fictional worlds!
Zeno's Paradox (of retail):
You buy $100 of goods at a 40% wholesale discount and then sell it all, making you $40. You use the $40 of profit to buy new stock at the same wholesale discount. This time you make $16. You reinvest the money into new stock....
How do you not go broke?
You buy $100 of goods at a 40% wholesale discount and then sell it all, making you $40. You use the $40 of profit to buy new stock at the same wholesale discount. This time you make $16. You reinvest the money into new stock....
How do you not go broke?
January 12, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Zeno's Paradox (of retail):
You buy $100 of goods at a 40% wholesale discount and then sell it all, making you $40. You use the $40 of profit to buy new stock at the same wholesale discount. This time you make $16. You reinvest the money into new stock....
How do you not go broke?
You buy $100 of goods at a 40% wholesale discount and then sell it all, making you $40. You use the $40 of profit to buy new stock at the same wholesale discount. This time you make $16. You reinvest the money into new stock....
How do you not go broke?
Reposted by Andrew Middleton
evergreen
January 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
evergreen
Continuing to have extremely good luck meeting kind, curious, enthusiastic and expansive minds that make me eager to grow and learn.
January 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Continuing to have extremely good luck meeting kind, curious, enthusiastic and expansive minds that make me eager to grow and learn.
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I teach "Mapping, Space, and Power" starting tomorrow. This 1942 LAT map came into my head from my grad school days and I spent hours reviving an old hard drive to find it. I can't believe it isn't *everywhere* in lit about understanding the power of maps but it is surprisingly hard to find online.
January 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I teach "Mapping, Space, and Power" starting tomorrow. This 1942 LAT map came into my head from my grad school days and I spent hours reviving an old hard drive to find it. I can't believe it isn't *everywhere* in lit about understanding the power of maps but it is surprisingly hard to find online.
Star Trek has had so many cringey moments. Code of Honor, anyone?Chakotay's, you know, whole thing? But Star Trek's imperfect grappling with class, race, gender and colonialism is a byproduct of its intense interest in justice.
Michelle Nichols as Uhura & William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek episode, "Plato's Stepchildren," which first aired on Nov. 22, 1968. It was the first scripted interracial kiss on U.S. television network TV, a year after the Supreme Court declared interracial marriage legal.
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Star Trek has had so many cringey moments. Code of Honor, anyone?Chakotay's, you know, whole thing? But Star Trek's imperfect grappling with class, race, gender and colonialism is a byproduct of its intense interest in justice.
If you live in Pawtucket, you should check out Adam Greenman running for mayor. He has something very rare: a vision of things getting better.
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
Home | Adam Greenman for Pawtucket Mayor
Adam Greenman is a Democrat running for Mayor of Pawtucket, RI.
www.adamgreenman.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:50 AM
If you live in Pawtucket, you should check out Adam Greenman running for mayor. He has something very rare: a vision of things getting better.
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
No nostalgia.
No defeatism.
He's a sharp organizer with more energy and creativity than this town has seen.
www.adamgreenman.com
Every day I have to explain to people that saying "I want a map of X" to me is like walking into a pizza place and declaring "I want a pizza!" What size? A slice to go or a whole pie? What toppings?
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Every day I have to explain to people that saying "I want a map of X" to me is like walking into a pizza place and declaring "I want a pizza!" What size? A slice to go or a whole pie? What toppings?
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
Maps have options to think about. "You know, just a basic map" is not a thing!
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“Even the current redistricting battle reveals the constant paradox: we draw firm lines around a fluctuating reality,” Adam Gopnik writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Will New York’s New Map Show Us?
Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world might be.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
“Even the current redistricting battle reveals the constant paradox: we draw firm lines around a fluctuating reality,” Adam Gopnik writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Bless book people
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
January 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Bless book people
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Map from my copy of an 1832 atlas by educator & cartographer Emma Willard (1787-1870). She argued for equality in women's education, noting women were equally capable of subjects like math & philosophy. In 1821 she opened the first school in the U.S. to offer women's higher education.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
December 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Map from my copy of an 1832 atlas by educator & cartographer Emma Willard (1787-1870). She argued for equality in women's education, noting women were equally capable of subjects like math & philosophy. In 1821 she opened the first school in the U.S. to offer women's higher education.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
I think the best way to revive when everything seems hopeless and stupid is to get breakfast with smart people who genuinely believe in a positive vision of the future. We can be so much more. This morning I will believe it for a moment.
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I think the best way to revive when everything seems hopeless and stupid is to get breakfast with smart people who genuinely believe in a positive vision of the future. We can be so much more. This morning I will believe it for a moment.
It's raining in the map center. There's a leak in a bathroom upstairs. This is going to be hundreds of dollars in damage. It's still coming down! I'm so done with Mills!
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
It's raining in the map center. There's a leak in a bathroom upstairs. This is going to be hundreds of dollars in damage. It's still coming down! I'm so done with Mills!
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Globus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Globus was a small rotating globe, approximately five inches wide, displaying the spacecraft's current and projected position above Earth. Instead of digital systems, it operated through a complex network of gears, cams, and mechanical differentials that converted orbital data into globe motion.
The "resource curse" is the connection between natural resource extraction dependent economies and autocracy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The "resource curse" is the connection between natural resource extraction dependent economies and autocracy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
A warlord can claim a mine or oil well and then reward/punish others with access. Think about Immortan Joe and his water in Fury Road.
It's hard to exert that control over a diverse economy.
Where does federal spending go? Where are people hurt the most from cuts?
I see it’s already answered. I was going to share this but not sure if the CPB data are even here. www.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...
Map Viewer
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January 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Where does federal spending go? Where are people hurt the most from cuts?
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Geography refresher needed at the State Department…
January 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Geography refresher needed at the State Department…
Enough complaining from me! Come see my talk 'How Maps Lie' at the Falmouth Public Library on January 13 at 6:30PM.
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How Maps Lie with Andrew Middleton of the Map Center
Join Andrew Middleton of The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI for a fun and informative talk on how maps tell all sorts of stories. Learn how historical and contemporary maps are designed to convey informa...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Enough complaining from me! Come see my talk 'How Maps Lie' at the Falmouth Public Library on January 13 at 6:30PM.
falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how...
falmouthpubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how...
This storefront is next to BART and the SF Ferry Terminal.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
This storefront is next to BART and the SF Ferry Terminal.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
1,189 square feet, $3,270 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/200-...
This one is 2,000sf, needs interior reno, is a block and a half from anything and is $4,200 a month. www.loopnet.com/Listing/20-W...
Providence. What are you doing.
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The track of IMO 9893046 Pacific Diamond is really sus'
January 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The track of IMO 9893046 Pacific Diamond is really sus'