Unhappily Ever After By Jeff Hong

Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

Boston Schools Use Modernized Maps That Enlarge Africa, Depict World Accurately

In the original map, Greenland appears bigger than Africa. In reality, it is 14 times smaller.

Public schools in Boston are using a new global map to help show students what the world really looks like.

Boston Public Schools, a network that includes 125 institutions, announced Thursday that instead of just using the widely popular, over 400-year-old Mercator projection map, which grossly distorts the size of the world’s countries and continents, classrooms will be incorporating the Peters projection map because it is more accurate.

👇🏾👇🏾 The Peters projection map shows the world’s countries and continents at their true scale.

“Overall, we hope students gain a deeper understanding of the importance of researching and analyzing multiple perspectives in order to develop their own conclusions about the world around them,” BPS’ History and Social Studies Director Natacha Scott said. “By exploring geography, we also hope to increase an awareness of the relationship between themselves to other countries, communities, cultures, and individuals around the world.”

First of all I’d like to admit  that no map is 100% accurate (though some are more accurate than others). But the ISSUE here is that the Mercator map doesn’t even get the size of Africa and South America right to the naked eye. Whichever map they use, people need to keep in mind just how many countries can fit into the African continent. 

Africa is enormous, and people still somehow call it a country. I personally hate that!

The Peters projection represents a more area accurate map, which makes other continents more proportional to one another.

And what I like the most is that white people triggered by accurate map projections!!!! 

#Africa #Justice

sometimes i forget that there are wild hamsters

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they…..they are wild. no hamster wheels. no water bottle to drink from. no cages. they are free.

Many of the elaborate background “sets” from the original Star Wars trilogy were actually just detailed oil paintings on panes of glass. Source Source 2 Source 3

Sorry to bother you, but you're really cute!

Well thank you very much you are quite cute yourself! :-)

Irish politician Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (TD, Labour Party Senator) calls out the Irish government on their reaction to election of Donald Trump.

“TRUMP IS A FASCIST AND I’M EMBARRASSED BY THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE.”

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