interesting world map projections

http://www.worldmapper.org/

Many of us have already experienced the double-take when we saw the usual (Mercator's) world map vs. Peter's projection - all of the sudden, North Hemisphere countries appear compressed on  log scale, and Africa becomes huge.

The link above has several other takes. Like science research funding:

or poverty:

so check out the link and "see the world as you've never seen it".