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One in a Million, With a Name: How the Micromort Measures Death
A micromort is a one-in-a-million chance of dying, packaged as a unit. Giving tiny risks a shared scale lets them be compared and, within limits, added up. And the limits turn out to be the interesting part.
Greenland Isn't Really the Size of Africa: The Map That Stretches the Poles
On the world map most of us grew up with, Greenland looks about as big as Africa. In reality Africa is fourteen times larger. The map isn't careless. It was built to keep sailors' compass bearings straight, and the price of that promise is that the world swells the closer you get to the poles.
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