You can see penguins in zoos all over the worl...  ...h of them and the penguins they have at The World Geography . Link -Thanks, Bosko!

Atlas Obscura had a great success earlier this...  ...ct to get people all over involved in their local geography and interesting places. It was so successful that...

(vimeo link) Office toys go on a road trip the only way they can, with the help of Google Street View and stop-motion animation in this animation by Tom Jenkins. Read more about this video at the Atlantic. Link -via...

Randall Munroe of xkcd  presents a dozen different ways to project the earth onto a map, and analyzes the fans of each. My favorite (after the globe, of course) is the Robinson projection, which pegs my lifestyle pr...

The highest mountain on earth is Mt. Everest in Nepal at 29,029 feet above sea level. However, it not the point on earth that is farthest from the center of the planet. That honor belongs to the volcano called Chimborazo...

(YouTube link) It all depends on how you define "continent," and that's where things get sticky. -Thanks, tom tom!...

Mental_floss continues to have fun with the latest US Census data in today's Lunchtime Quiz. Of the 150 most populous cities in the United States, 11 have names that are only four or five letters long. How many can...

Get this: According to the 2010 Census report, ten of America's 100 largest cities have names that starts with a "C". How many can you name in five minutes? That's the challenge of today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_fl...

Even driving down the highway can be a virtual experience! With this Google Earth application, just enter your location and destination, hit "go" to find your route, then go to the simulator panel and hit "start." You ca...

If you stand at the South Pole and walk in any direction, you'd be walking north, wouldn't you? So how do people in Antarctica read a map or give directions? Minnesotastan looked it up, and the answer is: they throw out...