One of the best known and commonly used world maps, the Mercator Projection, depicts Greenland and Africa as being roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is 14 times larger. This clever animation ...

The flow of the wind can not be seen with the eyes, and the movement of the ocean current whose scale is too large can not be felt any more. However, animation of air currents and ocean currents on ...

There is an episode in The West Wing television series in which White House press spokesperson CJ Craig meets a delegation of cartographers, who explain that the standard world map — a Mercator ...