"Greenland is the world’s largest island. ... On most maps, Greenland looks enormous. That’s just a distortion caused by ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe ...

In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice of map method sounds like a mathematical abstraction, it literally ...