Christopher Tucker
@planetucker.bsky.social
Author of @Planet3Billion | Chairman @AmericanGeo, @GeoRobotix, @RescueSpace | Proud husband and father | Works at intersection of technology, strategy, geography and national security.
#Geography #Oceanography #MarieTharp @womeningis.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social www.zmescience.com/other/geopic...?
A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman's pioneering quest to publish it
The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The power of #Geography with “ridiculous precision”. Love it. #carbon #pollution #mapping @americangeo.bsky.social gizmodo.com/americas-dir...?
America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision
“The U.S. taxpayers have a right to this data.”
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December 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The power of #Geography with “ridiculous precision”. Love it. #carbon #pollution #mapping @americangeo.bsky.social gizmodo.com/americas-dir...?
Thanks @colinwoodard.bsky.social for a great article.
#Geography #humangeography #aphg #immigration #migration @americangeo.bsky.social The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide
How ideas like “heritage Americans” and “nation of immigrants” wound up in conflict.
www.politico.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thanks @colinwoodard.bsky.social for a great article.
#Geography #humangeography #aphg #immigration #migration @americangeo.bsky.social The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide
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www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide
How ideas like “heritage Americans” and “nation of immigrants” wound up in conflict.
www.politico.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#Geography #humangeography #aphg #immigration #migration @americangeo.bsky.social The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide
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And I forgot to say, thanks to Frank Jacobs of #StrangeMaps @bigthink.com bigthink.com/strange-maps/
December 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
And I forgot to say, thanks to Frank Jacobs of #StrangeMaps @bigthink.com bigthink.com/strange-maps/
Provocative #Geography about a divided #America. Worth a read! @americangeo.bsky.social #humangeography #aphg #politicalgeography #culturalgeography #usa #maps
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bigthink.com/strange-maps...?
America’s post-apocalyptic maps reveal eerily familiar fault lines
As these maps show, post-apocalyptic fiction is a particularly fertile genre, and a particularly American one.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Provocative #Geography about a divided #America. Worth a read! @americangeo.bsky.social #humangeography #aphg #politicalgeography #culturalgeography #usa #maps
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bigthink.com/strange-maps...?
Ok, so more on this. Crazy cool. Human ancestors with flint tools and a hearth making fire and cooking 400,000 years ago in modern day England. Come on. I did not have that on today’s bingo card. #humangeography #geography #history #fire @anericangeo.bsky.social
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Did we start the fire? A 400,000-year-old hearth sparks new questions about human evolution
Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans
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December 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Ok, so more on this. Crazy cool. Human ancestors with flint tools and a hearth making fire and cooking 400,000 years ago in modern day England. Come on. I did not have that on today’s bingo card. #humangeography #geography #history #fire @anericangeo.bsky.social
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www.aol.com/400-000-old-...?
As a reminder, #history will continue to find deeper and deeper roots. Not more recent than previously thought. We are going to find more and more fascinating human history from way before we ever thought we would. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...?
Scientists discover oldest evidence of human-made fire in a 400,000-year-old hearth
A new archaeological find pushes back the timeline on when humans mastered the ability to make fires, a transformative technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
As a reminder, #history will continue to find deeper and deeper roots. Not more recent than previously thought. We are going to find more and more fascinating human history from way before we ever thought we would. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...?
Some truth that is worth your time to read. #supremecourt #history #votingrights @davedaley.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...?
John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True
The Chief Justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.
www.theatlantic.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Some truth that is worth your time to read. #supremecourt #history #votingrights @davedaley.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...?
#geography #3D #humangeography #aphg @americangeo.bsky.social @openstreetmap.bsky.social @osmus.bsky.social #cesium www.zmescience.com/tech/map-eve...?
Scientists just released a map of all 2.75 billion buildings on Earth, in 3D
A new global atlas captures humanity’s entire built environment—from megacities to remote villages.
www.zmescience.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Awesome. #geography #aphg #humangeography #history @americangeo.bsky.social
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www.earth.com/news/about-7...?
About 7,000 years ago, the Sahara desert was green, and now we know who lived there
Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.
www.earth.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Where in the U.S. Christmas trees are grown #geography #chtistmas @americangeo.bsky.social
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www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...?
Map: Where in the U.S. Christmas trees are grown
Odds are your tree comes from Michigan, North Carolina or Oregon.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Where in the U.S. Christmas trees are grown #geography #chtistmas @americangeo.bsky.social
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www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...?
This is awesome. www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/th...?
#HPLovecraft #Lovecraft #Maps #Geography #Awesomeness @americangeo.bsky.social
#HPLovecraft #Lovecraft #Maps #Geography #Awesomeness @americangeo.bsky.social
The Lovecraft Atlas Maps The Cthulhu Mythos With Enough Geographical Detail to Induce Madness
What's the French term for Great Old One? Not sure? Well, you may very well find the answer in Alain T. Puysségur and Laurent Gontier's Lovecraft Atlas, a geographical and cartographic exploration int...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
If you live in #DC #WashingtonDC and have strong opinions about the boundaries of DC neighborhoods, there is no such authoritative map and these folks are crowdsourcing a map. Take a look at this flyer and give it a go! #geography #geospatial @openstreetmap.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If you live in #DC #WashingtonDC and have strong opinions about the boundaries of DC neighborhoods, there is no such authoritative map and these folks are crowdsourcing a map. Take a look at this flyer and give it a go! #geography #geospatial @openstreetmap.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
More baby bust alarmism by @joshuaqyang.bsky.social at @washingtonpost.com. This stuff just gets so old. Time to reimagine economics for an era of degrowth. Prosperity and wellbeing do not demand growth. Please read some @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...?
China’s demographic crisis means it’s going to run out of workers
China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
More baby bust alarmism by @joshuaqyang.bsky.social at @washingtonpost.com. This stuff just gets so old. Time to reimagine economics for an era of degrowth. Prosperity and wellbeing do not demand growth. Please read some @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...?
Hoping #JeromePowell gives this article by Timothy W Ryback a read and holds out longer than Hans Luther did. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker
Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.
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July 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Hoping #JeromePowell gives this article by Timothy W Ryback a read and holds out longer than Hans Luther did. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Well, I guess we could just import #MexicanCocaCola, right? Are the President and #RFKJr saying that Mexico has always been right and America has been wrong re: Coke? Make American Great Again By Being More Like Mexico? Fraught. www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...?
Here's how Coke using sugar instead of corn syrup could affect your health
Is Coke switching to cane sugar healthier than its corn syrup formula?
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July 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Well, I guess we could just import #MexicanCocaCola, right? Are the President and #RFKJr saying that Mexico has always been right and America has been wrong re: Coke? Make American Great Again By Being More Like Mexico? Fraught. www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...?
So, I thought I had heard that #AlanDershowitz had frequented #JeffreyEpstein’s #LolitaEpxress. Am I incorrect? If I am not, why does he have an ounce of credibility in anything related to this topic? Does that make molestation attorney client privilege? www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst...?
Jeffrey Epstein's Lawyer Says Ghislaine Maxwell Should be Freed
Alan Dershowitz also said the convicted sex trafficker should be granted immunity to speak about her relationship with Epstein.
www.thedailybeast.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
So, I thought I had heard that #AlanDershowitz had frequented #JeffreyEpstein’s #LolitaEpxress. Am I incorrect? If I am not, why does he have an ounce of credibility in anything related to this topic? Does that make molestation attorney client privilege? www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epst...?
If you have been following the #EpsteinFiles, I would love your thoughts on this article by @shaunkingofficial.bsky.social
www.thenorthstar.com/p/he-belonge...?
www.thenorthstar.com/p/he-belonge...?
“He Belonged to Intelligence.” The Jeffrey Epstein Network — and the Truth That Still Hasn’t Been Told
I have studied this man for years, but this is my first time writing a public piece about his evil ways and his vast network. The evidence is overwhelming.
www.thenorthstar.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If you have been following the #EpsteinFiles, I would love your thoughts on this article by @shaunkingofficial.bsky.social
www.thenorthstar.com/p/he-belonge...?
www.thenorthstar.com/p/he-belonge...?
Another great article by Joseph Chamie, former director of the UN Population Division. The facts are messy. They don’t get better adding 80m+ people to the planet each year…Give it a read. www.ipsnews.net/2025/06/the-...
The Demographic Struggle Over International Migration
Given the demographics, significant differences between the two sides, and the current situations in various countries, it is likely that the struggle over international migration will persist through...
www.ipsnews.net
June 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Another great article by Joseph Chamie, former director of the UN Population Division. The facts are messy. They don’t get better adding 80m+ people to the planet each year…Give it a read. www.ipsnews.net/2025/06/the-...
Jyrki, it’s fun to remember how connections get made! I hope you and yours are safe and well. I need some Sardinian food and beverage!!
Refreshing Sardinian memories @planetucker.bsky.social 🥰
May 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Jyrki, it’s fun to remember how connections get made! I hope you and yours are safe and well. I need some Sardinian food and beverage!!
This is fascinating and makes you think. #AI #EthicalAI #ExplainableAI #ReproducibleAI www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
It turns out ChatGPT o1 and DeepSeek-R1 cheat at chess if they’re losing, which makes me wonder if I should I should trust AI with anything
AI has a novel approach to the endgame
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March 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is fascinating and makes you think. #AI #EthicalAI #ExplainableAI #ReproducibleAI www.techradar.com/computing/ar...