The grey countries on this map tend to spend significantly less per capita on health care than do the green countries -- except for the U.S., where the government spends way more on health care ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

A mosaic of world countries retaining their correct size and shape. Neil Kaye. The Mercator projection was first introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.

The world map shows the occurrence of resistance genes in different countries. The darker a colour used for a country, the higher the frequency of resistance genes in bacteria. Grey countries have ...