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💧🌏 Greg CocksMercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes] -- <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/</a> <-- shared technical article -- <a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://equal-earth.com/</a> <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases] -- [note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#size</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JustSayNoToGallPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JustSayNoToGallPeters</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equalarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercator</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nautical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nautical</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navigation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spheroid</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#globe</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#area</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shape</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/direction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#direction</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equalearth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhomb</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhomblines</a>

Bose-Einstein-Kondensat<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bIUreactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bIUreactor</a>: A modular <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> 3D tissue <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> platform:-perfusible <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3Dtissues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3Dtissues</a> -<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tissue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tissue</a> culture <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bioreactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bioreactor</a> chamber -cyclic compression module -<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PET</a>-compatible<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-024-03481-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-024-03481-5</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DIYbio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DIYbio</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lab</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/instruments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#instruments</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/biofabrication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biofabrication</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bioprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bioprinting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/3Dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3Dprinting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spheroid</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Arduino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arduino</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

ScienceActuallyWithout touching a single piece of land, it's possible to sail from Alaska to India in a completely straight line.More precisely, along a geodesic, or a curve that constitutes the shortest path (arc) between two points on a surface, like a spheroid.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sciencefact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefact</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sailing</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/straightline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#straightline</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/geodesiccurve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geodesiccurve</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/geodesic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geodesic</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sphere</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spheroid</a>

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