"The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World" (Riverhead ... After all, the lessons most of us encountered in school included a map of the world divided by lines into countries.

These different map representations are called projections. Oh hello! I’m just working out where I am by using this world, er…globe to give it its proper name. A globe is a model of planet ...

Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection that significantly alters the sizes (and even shapes) of continents, countries, and bodies of water. As a result, ...

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