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Episode #6 of the Boing Boing Boing podcast is ready for downloading. Our guest for this edition is author Steven Johnson, whose new book "The Ghost Map" my blog-mate Pesco describes as:

An account of an 1854 cholera outbreak on London's Broad Street [and] a magnificent combination of science thriller, cultural history, and celebration of cartography as a powerful tool to help us understand the dynamics of urban life.
tagged cholera city_planning emergence ghost_map history open_source public_health by jn ...on 07-NOV-06
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tagged cholera gis steven_johnson mapping gis_history ghost_map by jn ...on 29-SEP-06
tagged GIS cholera epidemiology history london mapping by jn ...on 11-APR-06