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Have we been measuring mountains all wrong?

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

The World Map You’ve Known Forever Is Wrong—and Africa Wants to Redraw It

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...
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African Union pushes map showing Africa’s true scale

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...
New York Post

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs redistricting measure in response to new Texas House map

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off Thursday evening on a redistricting plan aimed at countering Texas Republicans’ planned implementation of new congressional maps for the Lone Star ...
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Measuring the Scale of the Solar System

Explore the true scale of the Solar System in this video, which illustrates the relative sizes of the planets and their ...

The World Map We Learned in School is Wildly Misleading and Africa Wants It Gone

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...
KXAN

Senate blocks filibuster, passes congressional redistricting map

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Early Saturday morning, the Texas State Senate gave final approval to legislation to redraw the state’s congressional map. The vote came after Republicans in the chamber made a ...

African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
Daily Mail

Africa's plan to redraw 'skewed' world map: 55-nation African Union calls for 'Equal Earth' map to replace those that 'misrepresent continent's true scale'

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...
Times of San Diego

California Legislature clears way for new congressional district map

California Democrats on Thursday approved a constitutional amendment that would put a new state congressional map before voters this fall — their effort to retaliate after Texas Republicans approved a ...
JSTOR Daily

A Global Measure of Perceived Stress

This paper presents evidence from three samples, two of college students and one of participants in a community smoking-cessation program, for the reliability and validity of a 14-item instrument, the ...