Shoals

An occasional blog about mapping, history, art, and technology

Meaningful Communion

Posted on August 11, 2025

We’re neck-deep in AI these days, the era of the Large Language Model (LLM). It’s all over the news, but also in many of our day to day tasks, as the digital products threaded through our lives race to catch up. I’m not sure I’ve ever in my lifetime seen... [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - August 2025

Leopold's ghost train

Posted on August 3, 2025

Xinjiang, China [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - July 2025

Earth observation is always political

Posted on July 6, 2025

Kilimanjaro, Tanzania [Read More]
Tibor G. Tóth

Posted on June 4, 2025

Indulge me on a brief tangent: My parents are braggarts. [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - May 2025

Light it up, up, up, light it up, up, up . . .

Posted on May 31, 2025

Shoyna, Russia [Read More]
Beautiful Capital

Posted on May 9, 2025

Last fall I visited the Morgan Museum and Library with my family in New York City. We took in the special exhibition of famed librarian Belle da Costa Greene, and even my children were able to grasp the significance of the original Gutenberg Bible. Something in the collection that we... [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - April 2025

Victorian Ghosts in the water

Posted on April 21, 2025

Brighton, UK [Read More]
Atlas Miscellaneous - 2025-03-15

Coconuts and Ruins.

Posted on March 15, 2025

Lunuwila, Sri Lanka [Read More]