The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

Images of global weather patterns are projected onto the Science on a Sphere exhibit in the Ocean Science Center at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach in 2014. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) ...

This video features a fun street challenge where people are asked basic geography questions with some surprising results. It ...

LOS ANGELES - People being stumped by simple geography is a comedic theme commonly seen all over the internet. It usually involves an interviewer asking someone if they can point out the capital of ...

Most of us get almost all of the things we need by buying them; most of us know only vaguely, if at all where those things come from; and most of us know not at all what damage is involved in their ...

Simple geography puts the Pacific Northwest about as far from the birthplace of American barbecue as one can get (and not be in Alaska). That, however, doesn’t mean that one can’t find plenty of ...

Let this sink in: Eatonville is the oldest Black-owned municipality in the United States. Incorporated in 1887, it is the first town successfully established by African American freedmen. The ...