The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

I'll be back again tomorrow with a brand new show.

Have you ever looked at a map of the world and said to yourself,

wow, Greenland is really big? Have you ever looked at a map of the world and said to yourself,

wow, Greenland is really big,

only to then look at a globe and realize

that Greenland actually wasn't that big?

If so, you've probably discovered the Mercator Projection, a map that was originally created in 1569 and still with us today.

Learn more about the Mercator Projection, its problems and its benefits, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is

is sponsored by Audible.com.

Today's audiobook recommendation is Maphead

Charting the Wide Weird World of of geography wonks by Ken Jennings.

It comes as no surprise that as a kid, Jeopardy legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky

Hammond World Atlas by his pillow every night.

Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography

and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him

and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere. Jennings takes listeners on a tour of geogeeks from the London map fair to the

Bowles of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic

spelling bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth.

You can get a free one month trial to Audible and two free audio books

by going to Audible Trial.com

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