Friday, December 7, 2018

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...who? What people? Who is meaningfully misled by the Mercator projection in a way that has any consequences? This might be the most autistic XKCD ever: both in the idea that some people are this pathologically obsessed with maps, and in the fact that Randall chooses to illustrate this by... having someone convince someone else that Canada is an island? What?
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