Hello,<br>This is my first post, I was directed here by a friend. She said there are a lot of smart people here -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com ...

Try to wrap a football in aluminium foil and you will discover that you have to crumple up the foil to make it fit snugly to the ball. In the same way it is impossible to represent the curved surface ...

In school, I was, and still am, excellent in geography and history, but very poor in Arabic grammar and mathematics, and average in the other subjects. The world map has been my passion ever since I ...