As a child, Weinberg freshman Diego Guerrero had a puzzle of the world that he would build over and over again, he said.

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

Examples of this are average temperature and rainfall maps. Often, maps won’t show compass direction. In the world map above lines of latitude and longitude are used to determine direction ...

Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is flattened to fit on a piece of paper it is distorted. This makes some ...