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

by Audible.com.

Today's audiobook recommendation is Maphead, charting the wide weird world 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 Geogeaks from the and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.

Jennings takes listeners on a tour of geese

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

dot com slash Everything Everywhere, or by clicking on the link in the show notes.

Before we get into the Mercator projection,

we first need to establish what a projection is.

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