TDYR 223 - How Maps Frame Our Expectations For Travel

How do the maps we have around us frame our expectations for how we might travel from Point A to Point B? I talk about this in the context of my flights from New Hampshire to Singapore, which I naturally thought would go from East to West... and friends thought would go West to East... but in fact went a different way! A couple of the links I talked about were: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections#Cylindrical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator http://www.gcmap.com/ P.S. And yes, I know Singapore is actually a set of islands. I referred to it in the recording as being down the peninsula formed by Malaysia, Thailand, etc. Singapore is in fact a set of islands right off the tip of Malaysia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore for more info.