Our Internal Maps: What Ancient Navigators and London Cabbies Know About Way-Finding

Send us Fan Mail Read the companion essay What connects a Marshallese navigator who reads ocean swells with his stomach to a London taxi driver who holds 26,000 streets in memory? Both represent the absolute pinnacle of human spatial cognition—and both reveal what we're losing as we outsource navigation to GPS. In this episode, we explore fascinating research on two extreme forms of human navigation expertise. Meet Alson Kallen, director of Waan Aelon in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands)...