The Progress Network with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas
The World Map You Grew Up With Is Wrong
SEP 21, 202617 MIN
Description
Maps have distorted the true size of the African continent for 500 years, but a new UN resolution is changing that. Progress Network Executive Director Emma Varvaloucas examines this historic shift toward a more accurate projection to correct centuries of cartographic bias. Plus: a biological breakthrough that could prevent premature births, and the wild story of how Neptune was discovered 175 years ago.
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