Impunity wrote:masukuma wrote:Ash Ock wrote:Impunity wrote:CNN just seen this "discovery" last week, yet you saw it in 2013... 3 years ago!
Uko juu sana in pre-historic data.
Was brought up in The West Wing series in 2000:
yes... it was!! I have this as my facebook profile background
freaks people out!
That upside map make me wanna puke, inanichanganya kichwa.
I cant stand it.
Its like am reading head down.
it's not "upside down" but rather "south side up". There is no "correct" way of rendering a map. North is not "up", nor is East - right. 1st maps actually had north down. The significance?
Quote:Research suggests that north-south positions on maps have psychological consequences. In general, north is associated with richer people, more expensive real estate, and higher altitude, while south is associated with poorer people, cheaper prices, and lower altitude (the "north-south bias"). When participants were presented with south-up oriented maps, this north-south bias disappeared.
Researchers posit the observed association between map-position and goodness/badness (north=good; south=bad) is caused by (i) the convention of consistently placing north at the top of maps, and (ii) a much more general association between vertical position and goodness/badness (up=good, down=bad), which has been documented in numerous contexts (e.g., power/status, profits/prices, affect/emotion, and even the divine)
Watu wakienda US/UK or Europe huwa wanasema aje? TUNAENDA "MAJUU"!! When I was young I would look at the Nile and wonder how it flowed upside down! or was water flowing from the Mediterranean to Lake Victoria? the flow of the Nile didn't make any sense! I recently looked at how the Niger river flows - quite interesting.
All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!