Bluetooth Technology Is Named After Harald Blatand, A 10th-century Viking King Whose Last Name Translates

This always makes me well up.

independence day who????? It’s Malia Obama’s 19th birthday let’s celebrate something that really matters 🎂🎉🎉🎉 happy birthday to THE most iconic first daughter

Better quality photos of the embroidery for my mama. Currently being wrapped up with some handmade biscuits for Christmas.

thank u

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

In honor of Black History Month, let’s show some love to all of the great black actors of the MCU!

Thrillophilia, an online marketplace for tours and activities, compiled a list of countries, cities, and destinations that many of us may have been say incorrectly all along. Each graphic features a side-by-side comparison of the common, incorrect pronunciation juxtaposed with how the locals say it.

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