A team from Princeton University shared a new world map that is less distorted due it being two-sided and round, similar to a phonograph record. J. Richard Gott, an emeritus professor of astrophysics at Princeton, said: 'Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat map.' Gott, along with two other map experts, set out to create a radical, but more correct way of seeing our world. Following the investigation, the pair found that the Winkel Triple map was the best – it had a score of 4.563. The team pulled the best uses from the Winkel Triple and then added Gott's work on polyhedra, which is a three-dimensional shape with flat faces.

Source: The Nation February 16, 2021 21:56 UTC