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Reimagining the Fifty States

Artist Neil Freeman has created a map of the United States, envisioning the country as divided into 50 states of equal population.

February 14, 2013/by dpogreba

North Dakota Oil Boom Lights Up the Night

Daily Wisdom

Perhaps nothing better explains how the oil boom has changed North Dakota than lights. This satellite image of the United States at night shows just how significantly this formerly dark part of the American prairie has changed: The New York Times has more about the boom in North Dakota in this long piece: It’s […]

February 13, 2013/by dpogreba

Reimagining the Fifty States

Daily Wisdom

Artist Neil Freeman has created a map of the United States, envisioning the country as divided into 50 states of equal population.

February 14, 2013/by dpogreba

North Dakota Oil Boom Lights Up the Night

Daily Wisdom

February 13, 2013/by dpogreba

The New York Times has more about the boom in North Dakota in this long piece:

It’s hard to think of what oil hasn’t done to life in the small communities of western North Dakota, good and bad. It has minted millionaires, paid off mortgages, created businesses; it has raised rents, stressed roads, vexed planners and overwhelmed schools; it has polluted streams, spoiled fields and boosted crime. It has confounded kids running lemonade stands: 50 cents a cup but your customer has only hundreds in his payday wallet. Oil has financed multimillion-dollar recreation centers and new hospital wings. It has fitted highways with passing lanes and rumble strips. It has forced McDonald’s to offer bonuses and brought job seekers from all over the country — truck drivers, frack hands, pipe fitters, teachers, manicurists, strippers. It has ginned up an unreleased reality show called “Boomtown Girls,” which follows the lives of “five bold and brave sisters” in the formerly drowsy farm center of Williston, N.D. Williston, whose population has tripled in the past 10 years, lies in the middle of the 150,000-square-mile Williston Basin, a depression in the crust of the earth that geologists now believe contains one of the largest oil fields in the world.

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