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Home Front: Culture Wars
Boston school district switches to a more accurate world map, blows kids' minds
2017-03-23
All flat maps are inaccurate in different ways -- only globes tell the truth. So the question becomes, what different perspective is this "more accurate" projection intended to teach, and would the parents agree if they knew?
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  The world re-discovered, sans scurvy:
"Screw old dead explorers." Ooh, nervy!
A renaissance flowered:
"Our kids were empowered
By turning their maps topsy-turvy!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-03-23 11:04  

#13  Natacha was trashin' the borders:
Sad Universe Dashed in Disorder!
Such luck that her locus
Remained at the focus,
So Massholes were sure to support her.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-03-23 10:56  

#12  @#11: Thank you for helping me flush my sinuses with coffee...
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2017-03-23 10:55  

#11  B
I believe "prostrate" isn't what you think it is.
Posted by: DonM   2017-03-23 10:44  

#10  Oronce Finé depiction of an enlarged prostrate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-23 10:26  

#9  I like the polar projections myself.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-03-23 10:11  

#8  Although the map the Boston School district is using was no doubt intended to glorify how important the third world is, how much land they control and all that it just makes them appear as bigger failures.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-03-23 10:10  

#7  Damn - beat me to it, Frank!
Posted by: Raj   2017-03-23 09:47  

#6  Shaquille: "The map should be flat, just like the Earth"
Posted by: Frank G   2017-03-23 09:13  

#5  Maybe Shaq is onto something?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-03-23 09:10  

#4  Oronce Finé - 20 December 1494 – 8 August 1555:




Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2017-03-23 08:21  

#3  Take your pick
Posted by: Bobby   2017-03-23 07:30  

#2  I, for one, am sick of the innumerate racists who have never seen a globe.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-03-23 07:18  

#1  Mmmm...grid cells of uniform size? I suppose that makes it easier to compute distances, if the grid were representative of distance, which it's not.

Relative land mass, uhhh maybe, but you don't need a grid for that. It's not mass at all.
Posted by: al aSha-med   2017-03-23 00:55  

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