Is Greenland larger than Australia?

          The question made me think for a moment. If we are to see the map we are using in school, it is obvious that Greenland is bigger than Australia. If that is true then we can say that an island is bigger than a continent which sounds unusual. In order to resolve this conflict in my head, I tried searching it in Google. After a bit of research and some clicks, I found out that the answer to that question is No(I knew it). My coming up to the resolution again gave rise to another question, Why does Greenland look larger than Australia in maps? The answer is on the map itself! It's because of the map projection. In making the maps, the places near the poles seems to be stretched more compared to the equator. The reason behind this is to be able to lay the spherical surface of the earth into a flat surface*. Here is the proof to the answer.

Photo from: www.wikipedia.com

*Note that I changed "standardize the scale that is to be used in the map" to "be able to lay the spherical surface of the earth into a flat surface" (since April 30, 2013). Leave a comment below so I can know if the change I made is just fine or bad.

Just a bunch of apple facts

Photo from http://en.wikipedia.org

Hey guys, It has been another month for me to fill the blog with lots of things. Anything we can think of, from trees, houses, illusions and silly stuff. After a long time of the blog's silence, I am here to post another thing we are all familiar with, the apple fruit. As promised, here are some facts about the apple, facts that you probably don't know.

*The science of apple growing is called pomology.

*Apples are a member of the rose family.

*25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float.

*In colonial time apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.

*Apples account for 50% of the world's deciduous fruit tree production.

*The largest apple picked weighed three pounds.

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