Great land mass projects great power, but the way Europeans drew maps, you'd think Greenland and the African continent were the same size.

Areas away from the equator are basically enlarged.

I'm Marco Wormand today, rethinking maps. Also S salsa, a musical mix from other countries, but born in New York.

The whites have their music, the black had motel, and then Latinos, they have anything, and here comes funnier.

And the women's rugby World Cup starts tomorrow in England.

Fans are psyched that one of their own could make history.

Emily Scouts!

Emily Scouts! Emily Scouts!

He's going to go all the way!

Plus swimmers in Paris undeterred by the sin.

Think of the rats swimming in it,

the people peeing into it,

the numbers of houses upstream

that still haven't been hooked up to the sewage system.

Yeah, all that and more today, here on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman. Glad you're with us today.

We spend a lot of time in our newsroom looking at maps, and most often the basis of those two-dimensional flat grids goes back centuries to a German map called the Mercator

projection. Trouble is it distorts the size of land masses. A classic example, the African

continent and Greenland appear to be the same size. Africa is 14 times larger than Greenland. Africa

isn't just big. It's a giant. It's the size of the United States, China, India,

Japan, Mexico, and most of Europe combined. This isn't just about size. It's about power and

perception. That's from a new public awareness campaign, correct the map. They support an alternative

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