Assorted links

1. How to write a Visceral Abstract, or How to strongly express your opinion in academia (via Leo Monasterio)
   
   
2. A free spatial database of all administrative boundaries in the world 
   
   
3. A Rare Color Video Of London In 1927
   
   
4. How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
   
   
5. Navigate Zurich in 3D (via Open Data Zurich)
   
   
6. A nice infographic comparing R and Python for data analysis
   
   
7. Other things I'd rather be doing
   
   
8. 6 Politically Motivated Cities Built From Scratch. I have survived one them not without some mental damage though
   
   
9. Map of Pangea With Current International Borders, by Massimo Pietrobon

click here to enlarge it

image credit: Massimo Pietrobon