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 ...

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 ...

I never thought we’d see the day when butt-sculpting leggings were trending. But then again, I never thought we’d see the day when people queued for hours to buy furry little animals to clip onto ...