In middle and high school, we learn that flat maps are distorted projections of a nearly spherical planet. They're always wrong. The popular Mercator map gets especially bad in the polar regions. Still, even with this kn...

Whether you love to travel or just dream of sailin...  ...ream of sailing the world, Chiaki Kawakami's Cork Globe is a great way to keep your eye on the places you...  ...es: Start Pinning Your Destinations With the Cork Globe

Cameron Beccario put together a beautiful interact...  ...simply “earth.” It’s a virtual globe , with animated data on weather conditions and oce...

Instant Genius Snow GlobeAre you hoping to shake things up at work this year?...  ...s year? Get inspired with the Instant Genius Snow Globe from the NeatoShop. This great snow globe can be used as a paperweight and features the fig...  ...nd swirling glitter.Shake the Insta...

Spider-Man Snow Globe - $34.95Spider-Man, Spider-Man he does what ever...  ...hang-up. Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man Snow Globe

Randall Munroe of xkcd  presents a dozen diff...  ...analyzes the fans of each. My favorite (after the globe , of course) is the Robinson projection, which peg...

(YouTube link) It all depends on how you define "continent," and that's where things get sticky. -Thanks, tom tom!...

I enjoy the challenge of trying to figure out when...  ...llenge is easier with a handy chart from Replogle Globes that tells what year nations came into existence...  ...th each joke trying to one-up the one before. My globe is so old... HOW OLD IS IT? My globe is so ol...

If you stand at the South Pole and walk in any...  ...answer is: they throw out the directions from the globe and make up a system. The continent is labeled wi...

The surface of this world globe is like a blackboard. It comes with the outlines...  ...l boundaries and country names with chalk, so the globe will never be out of date (like mine, which has E...