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The map you probably learned in school is called the Mercator Projection (image below). It was designed in the 1500s by Gerardus Mercator and it's inherently flawed for a few reasons. For starters, squeezing a 3D shape onto a 2D surface requires sacrifices no matter what you do. That's just the nature of space.

There are 7 Millennium Problems, and if you solve one, you get $1 million. OpenAI claims to have found a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations. But did they get it fair and square?

I have a family member who believes that the government controls the weather. She's not alone. It's difficult to estimate, but at least 10% of the U.S. population believes that our government has the ability to literally turn the tides.

Statistically speaking, the fact that we exist means the odds of life in the universe are not zero. It's just a matter of finding the ratio.