March 21, 2017 05:31 am PDT
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Boston school district switches to a more accurate world map, blows kids' minds
The Mercator projection maps we're all familiar with dates to a 16th-centry Flemish cartographer who wanted to emphasize colonial trade routes; as a result, it vastly distorts the relative sizes and positions of the world's continents, swelling Europe and North America to absurd proportions and shrinking South America and Africa. (more…)
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