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If someone asks where you get off, you can now respond with precision. Satellites and computers spit out coordinates accurate to a few paces. And digital maps stand the Copernican principle on its head \u2013 putting you at the center of everything (how does it feel?).\nFind out how today\u2019s maps are shuffling our world view. Also, how does a rat navigate a maze without GPS? Hear of the plotting that goes on in that tiny rodent brain.\nPlus, mapping the universe and pinpointing just where we are in cosmic time \u2013 lucky for us, human evolution is right on schedule.\nGuests:\n\n\nJosh Winn - Astronomer, MIT\n\n\nDavid Redish - Neuroscientist, University of Minnesota\n\n\nMario Livio - Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute and author of Is God a Mathematician?\n\n\n\nMike Goodchild - Professor of Geography, Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices