Historical geography
How places were shaped by the past — settlement patterns, resource extraction, and long slow change.
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Transmission corridor at night Economy · 18 min · Mar 12, 2026The Ideology of Extraction
Commodity, class, and the collapse of distance — from the Banda Islands to the Strait of Hormuz.
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Data hall, cable plane Geography · 18 min · Jun 9, 2026The Geography of Royalty
Alberta has extracted several trillion dollars' worth of oil and bitumen from its subsurface. The public share of that wealth is determined by a royalty system that has never collected enough — and rarely saved what it did.
