内容摘要：at a fundraiser for his aborted 2024 presidential run. Not only is there no evidence of a conspiracy to infect certain white and Black folk with COVID. There is no evidence to suggest that any particular group is immune to the disease. Kennedy’s racism apparently is also anti-Jewish in nature.

at a fundraiser for his aborted 2024 presidential run. Not only is there no evidence of a conspiracy to infect certain white and Black folk with COVID. There is no evidence to suggest that any particular group is immune to the disease. Kennedy’s racism apparently is also anti-Jewish in nature.

In 2016, the debate resurfaced with renewed vigour after public schools in the US city of Boston switched to what many now refer to as the “Gall-Peters” projection. Officials said the move was part of a three-year effort to “decolonise the curriculum”. Teachers said they were amazed to see students questioning their view of the world after the switch.However, many experts and map enthusiasts were annoyed by the fact that Boston chose Peters, and as such, gave the projection renewed relevance.

Al Jazeera reached out to the Boston Public Schools (BPS) for comment.Amid the Boston schools’ drama, one group of researchers decided they’d had enough of Peters and set out to do something.Cartographer Bernard Jenny, who teaches immersive visualisation at Australia’s Monash University, said he was approached by Tom Patterson, a retired cartographer with the UN National Parks, for the task. Together with software engineer Bojan Savric, the team in 2018 created an equal area map they called the “Equal Earth” projection.

That version, which sees Africa expand impressively, is increasingly seen as the closest thing to a perfect area map. It’s the same one Ogundairo’s team is pushing for.“But that’s maybe a slightly pretentious name,” Jenny laughed over a Zoom call, explaining that Equal Earth is still not a perfect representation of the Earth. “We were just tired of the Peters resurgence and wondered why people would go with that when it’s not even the best in terms of anything,” he said.

The new projection tries to correct the Robinson projection, created in 1963 by American Arthur H Robinson. Many scientists use Robinson’s map because it is more visually balanced, although it compromises on area, size and scale, and particularly enlarges areas close to the north and south poles.

“We tried to come up with a version of Robinson that does not distort area,” Jenny explained. “So we stretched it in a way such that the different areas are not enlarged or shrunken. So Greenland is 14 times smaller than Africa on the globe, and it’s also 14 times smaller on the Equal Earth map.”In the bedroom, much like the living room, most everyday items, including clothing, toys and personal care products, are imported.

The vast majority of mattresses (90 percent) bought in the US are made domestically, according to statistics compiled by the International Sleep Products Association.Two US megacorporations - Tempur Sealy International, with its headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky, and Serta Simmons Holdings, based in Atlanta, Georgia - together account for nearly half of mattress sales in the entire industry.

It is estimated that less than 10 percent of fabric goods, including blankets, sold in the US are made domestically. The overwhelming majority are imported, mainly from countries with significant textile industries, like China, India and Bangladesh.The US apparel market is one of the largest globally, with consumers spending billions of dollars on clothing each year.