What Rankin finds is that one part of the globe is especially human-centric. The numbers on the map below show what proportion of humanity lives in the half of the world centered on that point.

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the ... regions to be shaped as they are on a globe, or sized as they are on a globe?

This keeps the continents in decent shape while causing the oceans to appear smaller, and cutting off half of Australia ... of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure ...

You may think you have a pretty good idea of the world map ... The hidden globe is a kind of transfiguration of this map, an accretion of cracks and concessions, suspensions and abstractions ...

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation. Home to six time zones, its endless plains spread from ocean to ocean, dominating great swathes of the northern half of the globe. But, in reality ...