Look at any map pinned to a classroom wall, and you’ll notice that Greenland seems particularly large ... world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world ... the size of land near the poles such that Greenland appears to be the same size as South America when in fact it is only one-eighth as big.

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The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...

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