Author

Emily Parker

In Bloomington, Indiana, Emily Parker is a geography editor at Biology Insights specializing in physical landscapes and cartography. A graduate of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a bachelor of arts in geography, she lives in the suburbs with her spouse and two teenagers. Parker spent years proofreading and fact-checking for an educational book publisher, background she brings to clarifying spatial coordinates and terrain features.

Do Toilets Flush Backwards in the Southern Hemisphere?
Do Compasses Always Point North? Not Exactly
How to Measure Water Depth: From Poles to Sonar
How Many Norths Are There? True, Magnetic, and Grid
How Dense Is Sand? Explaining the Factors and Values
Where Can You Find Collision Zones?
What Is the Driest Thing in the World?
What Is the Highest Point of a Wave Called?
What Is the Whitest Thing on Earth?
What Is the Density of Freshwater?
Can Sand Burn Your Feet? The Science Explained
What Was the Loudest Sound Ever Recorded on Earth?
How Far Down Can a Submarine Go in the Ocean?
Does the Toilet Flush the Other Way in Australia?